Malcolm is house hunting, and in a single day he visits eight different houses.He recalls the last house he saw quite vividly, but he finds it more difficult to remember specific details about the houses that he visited earlier.Based on research into memory errors, you should conclude that Malcolm's memory difficulties best illustrate:
A)motivated forgetting
B)the recency effect
C)the primacy effect
D)flashbulb memories

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The recency effect refers to the phenomenon where people tend to remember items presented at the end of a list better than items presented at the beginning. In this case, Malcolm's difficulty remembering specific details about the houses he visited earlier is consistent with the recency effect.

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