Jen's dad sends her to the grocery store for a few last-minute dinner items. Jen repeats the list of ten items as she walks to the store but can remember only the first and last three items when she gets there-she is unable to remember the four in the middle. This U-shaped pattern of recall is

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The U-shaped pattern of recall, where the first and last items in a list are remembered better than those in the middle, is known as the serial position effect. This phenomenon includes both the primacy effect (better recall of items at the beginning of the list) and the recency effect (better recall of items at the end of the list).

Jen's Dad Sends Her to the Grocery Store for a Few