Question

At a block party, Lousie meets nine new neighbors. Moments later, she can only remember the names of the first three and the last two neighbors she met. her experience illustrates a. Source amnesia

b. The serial position effect

c. The next-in-line effect

d. The spacing effect

Answer 1

b. The serial position effect.

The serial position effect is the phenomenon where people tend to remember first items and the last items more effectively than those items which are in the middle of a series. Here in this case Louise meets her nine new neighbors in A series and later she can remember the names of only the first three and last two neighbors she met. So she remembers first and last items of the Series but struggles with the names of neighbors she met in the middle.