Question

Terance can remember only the first two items and the last two items on the grocery list that his wife just read to him over the phone. The other five items in between are gone. This is an example of the _____________.

Answer 1

This is an example of recency and primacy bias.

Explanation:

What happened to Terrence is a pretty common occurrence to people who tend to remember things on a list with some form of difficulty as they usually only retain the things in the first part or the end of the list they are being narrated.

This is due to the attention spans of the people who are receiving the information from the other person.

When the person only remembers the first part of any information they are paying more attention in the beginning and this is known as primacy bias.

When the person only retains what they heard the last it is known as recency bias