Sung-Mi is trying to memorize the names of the bones in the hand. She had gone through a list of them when her phone rang. After she gets off the phone, she is MOST likely to remember the first few bone names because of the __________ effect.
A) elaboration
B) recency
C) primacy
D) maintenance

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The primacy effect is a cognitive bias that results in a person remembering items at the beginning of a list better than those in the middle or at the end. This is because the first few items are more likely to have been transferred to long-term memory.

Sung-Mi Is Trying to Memorize the Names of the Bones