Wayne has signed up for four courses this semester.On the first day of class,each professor introduced himself or herself.When Wayne gets back to his apartment,he finds that he remembers only the name of the professor of the last class of the day.This is an example of
A) state-dependent memory.
B) the recency effect.
C) the primacy effect.
D) the encoding specificity principle.

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The recency effect refers to the tendency to remember information that was presented most recently. This explains why Wayne only remembered the name of the professor in his last class of the day.

Wayne Has Signed Up for Four Courses This Semester