Josh is sent to the store by his mother to pick up a number of grocery items. Upon arriving home, Josh's mother notices that Josh remembered to buy the first few items but apparently forgot to get the last few items that she had mentioned to him.Remembering the first items in a list is called the primacy effect.

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The primacy effect refers to the tendency to remember items at the beginning of a list more easily than items in the middle or end. Therefore, Josh remembering the first few items but forgetting the last few is an example of the primacy effect.

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