medium · MCAT psych-soc
In a study of human memory, participants are asked to memorize a list of 20 words.
If the researchers introduce a 30-second distractor task (counting backwards by 3) between the presentation and the recall phase, which portion of the serial position curve will be most significantly degraded?
- The primacy effect (first few words).
- The recency effect (last few words).
- The entire curve (all words equally).
- The middle of the list only.
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