Question

Amit made a to-do list, but he mistakenly left it at home while going out for his initial activity. When he tried to remember it, he only remembers the beginning of the list and the end of the list, but he did not remember the things in the middle. The above situation is an example of ______

Options

• Flashbulb memory

• Serial position effect

• Encoding specificity effects

• None of the above

Answer 1

Amit made a to-do list, but he mistakenly left it at home while going out for his initial activity. When he tried to remember it, he only remembers the beginning of the list and the end of the list, but he did not remember the things in the middle. The above situation is an example of the Serial position effect.

Explanation:

The serial position effect is a tendency in which recalling the first and last items in a list is more accurate while recalling items in the middle is less accurate.