Sarah can remember names of the first two people she was introduced to at Ted's party,and she can remember the name of the last person she met,but the names of the dozen or so people in between are gone.This is an example of the:
A)encoding specificity effect.
B)serial position effect.
C)tip-of-the-tongue effect.
D)reintegrative effect.

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The serial position effect refers to the phenomenon that we are more likely to remember items at the beginning or end of a list and less likely to remember items in the middle. This explains Sarah's ability to remember the first two and last person she met at the party, but not the ones in between.

Sarah Can Remember Names of the First Two People She