Suppose that you have been given a short list of words to memorize. After you have read through the list once, you discover that you remember the last four words on the list perfectly. This result is an example of the
A) Peterson and Peterson recall procedure.
B) proactive remembering.
C) primacy effect.
D) recency effect.
E) chunking procedure.

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This result is an example of the recency effect, which is the tendency to remember the last items in a series better than those in the middle or at the beginning. This occurs because the last items are still in short-term memory when recall is tested.

Suppose That You Have Been Given a Short List of Words