Adrianna is trying to memorize the names of the bones in the hand.She had gone through the whole list of them when her phone rang.After she gets off the phone,she is MOST likely to remember the first few bone names on the list because of the
A)retroactive interference effect.
B)recency effect.
C)primacy effect.
D)proactive interference effect.

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The primacy effect is a cognitive bias that results in a person remembering items at the beginning of a list better than those in the middle or end. This is because the first few items are more likely to have been transferred to long-term memory before being interrupted.

Adrianna Is Trying to Memorize the Names of the Bones