At your first day of work the manager introduces your coworkers, one at a time. As you meet each person, you repeat all the names, starting at the beginning. By the time you meet the last person, you can better recall the names at the beginning and the last names you heard. Which of the following best explains your experience?

A: spacing effect

B: chunking

C: serial position effect

D: proactive interference

E: semantic encoding

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Nicole Mann

4 May, 20:29

At your first day of work the manager introduces your coworkers, one at a time. As you meet each person, you repeat all the names, starting at the beginning. By the time you meet the last person, you can better recall the names at the beginning and the last names you heard. Which of the following best explains your experience?

A: spacing effect

B: chunking

C: serial position effect

D: proactive interference

E: semantic encoding

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Regan Mccarty · Answer 1

C: serial position effect

Explanation:

Serial position effect: In psychology, the term serial position effect states that the propensity of an individual to recall specific terms related to memory about the same is more of the information that is being presented at the last and the first of the series instead of the information that comes in the middle of the series.

Serial position effect includes two important terms i. e, the recency effect and the primacy effect.

In reference to the question, the serial position best explains the given statement.