The tendency to recall things that are presented at the beginning of a sequence is called the __________ effect

a) serial position
b) recency
c) primacy
d) sequence order

ANS: C

Psychology

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a. correlations greater that +50.00 are easier to interpret than those less than +50.00 b. small changes in children's environments can often have substantial changes in children's preferences (e.g., whether they read just for fun) c. the same environmental stimuli that can have a large effect on children younger than 3 often have no effect on children older than 5. d. seemingly straightforward causal inferences of causation based on correlational data often prove to be wrong

Psychology

If adults in working-class, dual-income household choose to work in "off-shift" schedules, the reason usually is:

a. more money b. less stress on the spouse c. less stress on the off-shift worker d. less need for childcare outside the home

Psychology