Deidre has a list of medicines she needs to buy from the drugstore. She quickly goes through the list and, believing she has memorized it, leaves the list behind when she steps out of her home. When she reaches the drugstore, however, she can only recall the names of the first few and the last few medicines on the list. Deidre's inability to recall the names of the medicines in the middle of the list is an example of ________.

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Deidre's experience is an example of the serial position effect, which describes how people tend to remember the first and last items in a series better than the middle items.

Deidre Has a List of Medicines She Needs to Buy