When children are first learning the alphabet, they tend to be accurate on the ABCD portion and the WXYZ portion while making lots of mistakes in between. This represents the
A)primacy effect.
B)recency effect.
C)serial position effect.
D)retrograde amnesia.
E)anterograde amnesia.

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This phenomenon is known as the serial position effect, which describes how people tend to remember the first (primacy effect) and last (recency effect) items in a series better than the middle items.

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