Question

Our ability to recall an item from a list depends on where in the list the item occurs. this is the __________ effect. question 44 options:

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: Serial position effect.
Serial position effect refers to the tendency to only recall the first or last item in memorizing a certain sequence.
Researchers believed that this is caused by the common rehearsal method that people used when remembering a list. The first and last item would differentiate that sequence with other memory.