Moishe can remember only the first two items and the last two items on the grocery list that his wife just read to him over the phone.The other five items in between are gone.His memory of things at the start of the list demonstrates the
A)encoding specificity effect
B)primacy effects
C)recency effect
D)TOT effect.

Question

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The primacy effect refers to remembering things at the beginning of a list.

Moishe Can Remember Only the First Two Items and the Last