Amnesic people show an impairment for the ________ effect but an intact ________ effect.
A) serial; recency
B) spacing; primacy
C) recency; primacy
D) primacy; recency

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Amnesic people often have difficulty with early items in a list (impaired primacy effect) but can recall the last items they heard or saw (intact recency effect). This is because the primacy effect involves long-term memory, which is often impaired in amnesia, while the recency effect involves short-term memory, which is typically preserved.

Amnesic People Show an Impairment for the ________ Effect but an Intact