According to the research on the primacy effect, if your father read you a list of 10 items to pick up at the hardware store, you would most easily recall those items

A) from early in the list.
B) in the middle of the list.
C) from the end of the list.
Incorrect. Our tendency to remember things that were presented at the end of a list is known as the recency effect, not the primacy effect.
D) that are most distinctive.


Answer: A

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