Patrick wrote out a shopping list then left it at home on the kitchen counter. Now, at the supermarket, the only items he can remember are the first two on the list. This is an example of
A) chunking.
B) the recency effect.
C) encoding specificity.
D) consolidation hypothesis.
E) the primacy effect.

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The primacy effect is a cognitive bias that results in a person recalling items at the beginning of a list better than those in the middle or end. Patrick remembering only the first two items on his list is an example of this effect.

Patrick Wrote Out a Shopping List Then Left It at Home