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audragclark

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In recall performance, the elevated recall of the first few items in a list (presumably because the items have the greatest chance of being transferred to LTM) is referred to as the __________.
 
  a. primacy effect
  b. word superiority effect
  c. recency effect
  d. salience effect

Question 2

Adding 30 seconds of backwards counting between the study and test phases of a free recall list learning task __________.
 
  a. will increase the recency effect
  b. will reduce the primacy effect
  c. will increase the primacy effect
  d. will reduce the recency effect



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pami445

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Answer to Question 1

Correct: a

Answer to Question 2

Correct: d




audragclark

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Wow, this really help


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Excellent

 

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