Savanna is on a committee interviewing applicants for a position with her company.Over the four-hour time period, the committee interviews eight different applicants.Savanna remembers most of the comments made by the first two applications, but she finds it more difficult to remember specific comments made by any of the later applicants.Based on research into memory errors, you should conclude that Savanna's memory difficulties best illustrate:
A)the primacy effect
B)motivated forgetting
C)the recency effect
D)the spacing effect

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The primacy effect explains why Savanna remembers the comments made by the first two applicants more clearly than those made by later applicants. It is a phenomenon where individuals tend to recall the first items in a series better than the middle items.

Savanna Is on a Committee Interviewing Applicants for a Position