Suppose that a professor asks the students in her class to say their names out loud (one at a time) on the first day of class. Then she asks them to write down as many of their classmates' names as they can recall
Then she constructs a graph that shows "Number of correct responses" on the Y-axis and "Serial position of the name" on the X-axis. The shape of the graph
a. will be a straight line, with the greatest accuracy on the first items.
b. will be a straight line, with the greatest accuracy on the last items.
c. will be an upside-down U-shaped line, with the greatest accuracy on the middle items.
d. will be a U-shaped line, with the greatest accuracy on the first and last items.
Ans: d
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