Question

"Cat food, cola, toothpaste." Your roommate begins reciting items as you get to ready to leave to the store. He continues to list a few more items. Finally, he wraps up: "Coffee creamer, spaghetti sauce, dish liquid, and ice-tea mix." You forget a couple of things, but you do manage to get the cat food, cola, and toothpaste. Your memory for these items reflects the ________ effect.

Answer 1

Answer:

primacy effect

Explanation:

Primacy effect -

It is the aspect of the phenomena of serial position effect .

According to serial position effect , when a person is told to recall some of the information from his memory .

According to Primacy effect , the list of item or some information is the easiest for the words or item at the beginning or from the end .

Hence , from the question , the only item the person could remember were the items told in the very starting , i.e. , cat food , cola and the toothpaste , showing primacy effect .