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. This is an example of the ________ effect.
A) encoding specificity
B) serial positio.
C) TO.
D) reintegrative
E) priming

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The serial position effect refers to the tendency to remember items at the beginning and end of a list better than items in the middle of the list. In this example, Moishe remembers the first two (beginning) and last two (end) items on the grocery list but forgets the items in the middle.

Moishe Can Remember Only the First Two Items and the Last