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True or False. The primacy effect refers to the tendency to recall the items at the beginning and end of a list better than the items in the middle.

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The correct answer is the option: False.

Step-by-step explanation:

To begin with, the primacy effect, in the fields of psichology and sociology is known as a cognitive bias and is part of a serial-position effect among with the recency effect. Moreover, the term refers to the tendency to recall the information at the beginning only of a list better that the information in the middle and at the end of that same list.

Secondly, the recency effect is the one that establishes that a person tends to recall the items at the end better that the items at the beginning or middle.

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