Kara is looking for a wedding dress and visits 10 different stores in one day. She finds at the end of the day she recalls perfectly the dress she liked in the first store she visited but does not remember in what stores she saw the other dresses she also liked. Kara's memory difficulties reflect:

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The primacy effect is the tendency to remember information that was presented first, which is demonstrated in Kara's ability to remember the dress she liked in the first store she visited. This is not motivated forgetting, which involves intentionally trying to forget information. Flashbulb memories are vivid, highly detailed memories of a significant event and are not relevant to Kara's situation. The recency effect is the tendency to remember information that was presented last, which is not reflected in Kara's memory difficulties.

Kara Is Looking for a Wedding Dress and Visits 10