The last items in a long list of items to be remembered are usually remembered better than items in the middle of the list. This is referred to as the ____.
A) primacy effect
B) law of effect
C) continuity effect
D) recency effect

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The recency effect refers to the tendency to remember items at the end of a list better than items in the middle, likely due to these items being stored in short-term memory.

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