The concept that the order in which we are presented with information will affect how well we retrieve that information is called the ___ effect.
A) site-specific
B) hierarchical
C) ordering
D) serial position

Question

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The concept described in the question is the serial position effect, which refers to the phenomenon that people tend to remember the first (primacy effect) and last (recency effect) items in a list better than those in the middle.

The Concept That the Order in Which We Are Presented