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"Milk, cereal, candy." Your roommate begins reciting items as you get ready to leave to the store. He continues to list a few more items. Finally, he wraps up: "Spaghetti sauce, dish liquid, and ice- tea mix." You forget a few things, but the spaghetti sauce, dish liquid, and ice-tea mix are in the bag. Your memory for these items reflects the ________ effect.

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recency effect

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Recency effect is memory process in which human is capable and able to recall only fresh and recent information. As in this he is able to recall only recent information spaghetti sauce, dish liquid, and ice-tea mix but unable to remember previous information and list Milk, cereal, candy represent the recency effect. recency effect means person has tendency to remember the recent and new learned impressions, words and information only.

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