Maria is trying to recall the names of all 48 of the contiguous United States. She begins by naming the New England states, followed by the mid-Atlantic states, the states in the Southeast, the Midwest, the Southwest, and finally the states in the Pacific Northwest. Maria's pattern of recall illustrates the concept of
A)the primacy effect.
B)levels-of-processing.
C)the serial-position effect.
D)clustering.

Question

Maria is trying to recall the names of all 48 of the contiguous United States. She begins by naming the New England states, followed by the mid-Atlantic states, the states in the Southeast, the Midwest, the Southwest, and finally the states in the Pacific Northwest. Maria's pattern of recall illustrates the concept of ​
A)the primacy effect.
B)levels-of-processing. ​
C)the serial-position effect. ​
D)clustering. ​

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Maria's method of recalling the states by grouping them into regions (New England, mid-Atlantic, etc.) demonstrates the concept of clustering, which is organizing items into related groups during recall from long-term memory.

Maria Is Trying to Recall the Names of All 48