Pippa can remember only the first two items and the last two items on the grocery list that her roommate just read to her over the phone. The other five items in between are gone. Her memory of things at the end of the list demonstrates the __________ effect.
A) encoding specificity
B) primacy
C) recency
D) TOT

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The recency effect is the tendency to remember items at the end of a list better than items in the middle. In this scenario, Pippa can only remember the last two items on the list, demonstrating the recency effect.

Pippa Can Remember Only the First Two Items and the Last