Wayne Has Signed Up for Four Courses This Semester

question 151

Multiple Choice

Wayne has signed up for four courses this semester.On the first day of class,each professor introduced himself or herself.When Wayne gets back to his apartment,he finds that he remembers only the name of the professor of the last class of the day.This is an example of

• A) state-dependent memory.
• B) the recency effect.
• C) the primacy effect.
• D) the encoding specificity principle.

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