Which is an accurate summary of the primacy effect?
A) When given a list of items to remember, people can usually recall the first things on the list better than those in the middle.
B) Memories will fade over time if they are not rehearsed and actively used.
C) Memory loss is rapid at first but slows down as time passes.
D) Some information we try to encode and store interferes with other information that is being encoded and stored at the same time.

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The primacy effect refers to the tendency for people to remember the first items on a list better than those in the middle or at the end.

Which Is an Accurate Summary of the Primacy Effect