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​you attend a lecture in which a politician lists the 20 points of her platform in a relatively short period of time. after leaving the lecture, you are least likely to recall the points from the ____.

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This is a type of memory bias called the "serial-position effect," coined by Hermann Ebbinghaus. This refers to a person's tendency to most often remember the first and the last items in a series best, and those in the middle of the series worst.
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