When Kate got home, Guy rummaged through the grocery sack, then said, "Kate, you forgot the dental floss and the coffee creamer! They were the last two things I told you to get! Don't you remember me saying that?" That Kate remembered to get the first items on the list is a pattern of remembering called:
A) the tip-of-the-tongue experience.
B) the recency effect.
C) the primacy effect.
D) encoding specificity.

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The primacy effect is the tendency to better remember the first items on a list or in a series of information. In this case, Kate remembered to get the first items on the list, but forgot the last two things that were mentioned (dental floss and coffee creamer).

When Kate Got Home, Guy Rummaged Through the Grocery Sack