A research participant is required to report as much of a poem as he can remember immediately after having read the poem once. We would expect the greatest number of recall errors in lines:
A)at the beginning of the poem
B)in the middle of the poem
C)at the end of the poem
D)at the beginning or the end of the poem

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This phenomenon is explained by the serial position effect, which suggests that items in the middle of a list (or poem, in this case) are less likely to be remembered than those at the beginning (primacy effect) or at the end (recency effect).

A Research Participant Is Required to Report as Much of a Poem