According to the serial-position effect, if you are shown a list of items and then asked to immediately recall them, you will most easily recall items:
A) from the beginning and the middle of the list.
B) from the beginning and the end of the list.
C) from the middle and the end of the list.
D) only from the beginning of the list.

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The serial-position effect states that we are more likely to remember items at the beginning and end of a list rather than the middle, due to the primacy and recency effects. The primacy effect is the tendency to remember items at the beginning of the list better because they had more time to be rehearsed and transferred to long-term memory. The recency effect is the tendency to remember items at the end of the list better because they are still in working memory. Therefore, the best choice is B, recalling items from the beginning and end of the list.

According to the Serial-Position Effect, If You Are Shown a List