Craig is being introduced to the members of the fraternity he has just joined.There are 15 members whom he has not met before,and once the introductions are over,he finds he can remember the names of only the first three people and the last two people he was introduced to.What is the memory difficulty that Craig is experiencing consistent with

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The serial-position effect refers to the tendency for people to remember items that are presented at the beginning (primacy effect) or end (recency effect) of a list or sequence better than items presented in the middle. In this case, Craig remembers the first three and last two fraternity members he was introduced to, indicating a recency effect.

Craig Is Being Introduced to the Members of the Fraternity