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Primacy Effect In Short Term Memory

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Raj is asked to memorize a list of eight words. During a subsequent recall test, he is only able to remember the first three words on the list. Raj's performance best illustrates which of the following short-term memory phenomena?

A

Primacy

B

Elaboration

C

Recency

D

Chunking

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