Your relative success in recalling a dozen different names a week after you heard them listed in order is likely to illustrate
A) implicit memory.
B) a recency effect.
C) flashbulb memory.
D) a primacy effect.

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The primacy effect refers to the tendency to better remember items from the beginning of a list due to the longer amount of time those items have to be rehearsed and encoded into memory. In this case, the fact that the names were recalled a week later suggests that they were successfully encoded into long-term memory, and the ability to recall them relatively well may be due to the primacy effect.

Your Relative Success in Recalling a Dozen Different Names a Week