The tendency for recall of the items in the middle of the list to surpass recall of the first and last items on a list is called the serial position effect
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Ans: False
Rationale: According to the serial position effect, people tend to remember the first few and last few items in a list, not those in the middle.
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