Moishe can remember only the first two items and the last two items on the grocery list that his wife just read to him over the phone. The other five items in between are gone. This is an example of the __________
a) serial position effect.
b) encoding specificity effect.
c) TOT effect.
d) reintegrative effect.
a Explanation: The finding is known as the serial position effect, as it refers to the ability to
better remember things at the beginning and end of a list.
Psychology
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