AP PSYCHOLOGY

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COGNITION

THINKING AND LANGUAGE

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You have been given a list of items to purchase by your boss but left the list at home. Because of serial position effect you are likely to remember:
A
The last items now, and then the first items later.
B
The items in the middle of the list now and later.
C
The first items on the list now and later.
D
The last items on the list now and later.
E
The items that had semantic meaning to you.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -For example, if a person creates a long grocery list, the serial position effect means that they will likely remember the first and last few items on the grocery list, but will have trouble remembering what is in the middle.

Detailed explanation-2: -Experiments show that when participants are presented with a list of words, they tend to remember the first few and last few words and are more likely to forget those in the middle of the list. This is known as the serial position effect.

Detailed explanation-3: -The serial position effect is the psychological tendency to remember the first and last items in a list better than those in the middle. The serial position effect is a form of cognitive bias, and it includes both the primacy effect and the recency effect.

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