If you are trying to remember the names of all the U.S. presidents, the serial position effect would predict that you will have difficulty
A) remembering more than about seven (plus or minus two) of them.
B) recognizing the names of the presidents on a list.
C) recalling the earliest presidents.
D) recalling the most recent presidents.
E) recalling the presidents in the middle of the list.

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The serial position effect suggests that people tend to remember items at the beginning and end of a list better than those in the middle. This means recalling the presidents in the middle of the list would be more difficult.

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