Assume you are presented with a list of 15 random words. Immediately after the list has been presented, you are asked to recall as many of the words as you can. Research has shown that you will tend to
A)remember words presented in the middle best
B)remember words presented at the beginning and end better than words presented in the middle
C)remember words presented at the end much better than words presented in the middle or at the beginning
D)remember words presented in the beginning much better than words presented in the middle or at the end

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This phenomenon is explained by the serial position effect, which suggests that people tend to remember items at the beginning (primacy effect) and at the end (recency effect) of a list better than those in the middle.

Assume You Are Presented with a List of 15 Random