"Milk,cereal,candy." Your roommate begins reciting items as you get ready to leave to the store.He continues to list a few more items.Finally,he wraps up: "Spaghetti sauce,dish liquid,and ice- tea mix." You forget a few things,but the spaghetti sauce,dish liquid,and ice-tea mix are in the bag.Your memory for these items reflects the _____ effect.
A)primacy
B)recency
C)list memory
D)serial order

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The recency effect refers to the tendency for items at the end of a list to be more easily remembered. In this scenario, the items that were listed last (spaghetti sauce, dish liquid, and ice-tea mix) were remembered, suggesting a recency effect was at play.