From the list that Jill made for a shopping trip to the grocery store, she could recall only the items in the beginning and in the end of a list. This is an example of ________.

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Jill's ability to remember items at the beginning and end of the list but not those in the middle is an example of the serial position effect, which describes how our recall accuracy varies as a function of an item's position within a list.

From the List That Jill Made for a Shopping Trip