Craig is being introduced to the members of the fraternity he has just joined.There are 15 members who he has not met before,and once the introductions are over,he finds he can only remember the names of the first three people and the last two people he was introduced to.He can't recall the names of any of the other members.The memory difficulty that Craig is experiencing is consistent with
A) late-selection filtering.
B) the misinformation effect.
C) non-distributed practice.
D) the serial position effect.

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The serial position effect refers to the phenomenon where we tend to remember the items at the beginning and end of a list better than those in the middle. In this case, Craig is able to remember the first three and last two names, but not the ones in the middle, which is consistent with the serial position effect.

Craig Is Being Introduced to the Members of the Fraternity