Professor Davis places a map of Europe on his blackboard, and Bill, a student in the class, encodes the map by reciting, out loud, the names and locations of the different countries on the map. Bill's later inability to recall the spatial elements of the map can be said to be most directly stemming from:
A) the primacy effect
B) the serial position effect
C) the generation effect
D) verbal overshadowing

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Bill's inability to recall the spatial elements of the map after encoding the information verbally is a classic example of verbal overshadowing. This phenomenon occurs when the act of describing something in words impairs a person's ability to remember visual details.

Professor Davis Places a Map of Europe on His Blackboard