The serial-position effect is the tendency for recall of the items in the middle of the list to surpass recall of the first and last items on a list

Indicate whether this statement is true or false.


Answer: False

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Researchers who study scientific thinking among trained and untrained adolescents and adults find that one of the most difficult aspects of science for people understand is that

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Your friends frequently ask you what the symbols mean because they are interested in getting tattoos of them. You are surprised at how many times they ask you about the same symbol. Why is it that you can learn more kanji symbols fairly easily, but your friends barely learn a few symbols? a. You have considerable knowledge, which assists you in learning more. b. You hang around with friends who are not very intelligent. c. Your friends put very little effort in learning the symbols. d. You have special powers of memorization.

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