An experimenter presents a list of words for participants to free recall in any order. Immediately after the list is presented, the participants must do math problems before they recall. Relative to a condition in which recall is immediate, the participants who did math problems will show:
a. a decrease in their primacy effect but not their recency effect.
b. a decrease in their recency effect, but not their primacy effect.
c. no differences.
d. both primacy and recency will decrease by approximately the same amount.
Ans: b
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