Question

At a block party, Marci meets nine new neighbors. Moments later, she can only remember the names of the first three and last two neighbors she met. Her experience illustrates the _____ effect.

Answer 1

Answer:

Serial position effect

Explanation:

The serial position effect is a phenomenon related to our memory and it refers to the tendency to recall the first and last items of a list best while remembering the items in the middle worst. In other words, we tend to forget the items that are in the middle.

In this example, Marci meets nine new neighbors but later she can only recall the names of the first three and the last two. We can observe that she recalls best the first and last neighbors she was introduced to and she forgot the 4 ones in the middle. Therefore this is an example of the serial position effect.