The tendency to remember the beginning and ending items better than the middle items when a list of items is presented is called
A) eidetic recall.
B) the ordering effect.
C) the serial position effect.
D) the opposite-ends effect.

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The tendency to remember the beginning and ending items better than the middle items when a list of items is presented is known as the serial position effect. This phenomenon occurs due to the primacy effect (better recall of the early items) and the recency effect (better recall of the later items).

The Tendency to Remember the Beginning and Ending Items Better