Tara gives Patrick directions to her house so he can come to the party tonight. Patrick's ability to recall the directions in the proper order is an example of:

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Patrick's ability to recall the directions in the proper order is a demonstration of serial recall, which refers to our ability to recall items or events in the order in which they occurred. The primacy effect and recency effect refer to the tendency to remember the first and last items in a list, respectively, and imagination inflation refers to the phenomenon in which imagining an event can increase confidence in its occurrence. None of these concepts are directly relevant to Patrick's ability to recall Tara's directions.

Tara Gives Patrick Directions to Her House So He Can