People's tendency to remember words at the beginning and end of a list better than words presented in the middle of the list is called the ____________.
A)primacy effect
B)serial position effect
C)state-dependent memory
D)recency effect

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The serial position effect encompasses both the primacy effect (better memory for items at the beginning of a list) and the recency effect (better memory for items at the end of a list), explaining why people tend to remember words at the beginning and end of a list better than those in the middle.

People's Tendency to Remember Words at the Beginning and End