Question

James is going to the store to buy the following items: shampoo, ice cream, bananas, bread, juice, milk, toothpaste, and pretzels. Instead of making a list, he repeats the list over and over to himself and comes home with only the shampoo, ice cream, and bananas. James was using ________ rehearsal and remembered only the first few items on the list due to the _________ effect.a. elaborative; primacyb. maintenance; primacyc. maintenance; recencyd. elaborative; recency

Answer 1

Answer:maintenance rehearsal; primacy effect

Explanation:

Maintenance Rehearsal is the way we use to repeat verbally part of information that we need to remember. Usually the this information we repeat is able to be stored in our short memory for just 20 to 30 seconds. This information is available for the time when we still need to use it but it never get stored in our long term memory.

Primacy effect

This effect refers to how we tend to remember only information located at the top of our list better than those at the middle and the end. This happens because as we write the first list of our items we still have more time to memorize it since there is not yet too much information to compete with this list but as the list get longer now there is a competition amongst all items in the list and it becomes hard to give sufficient time to memorize the middle and the last item.