Your mother needs you to pick up ten items from Whole Foods. She rattles off the list quickly, leaving you no time to jot down a list. By the time you get to Whole Foods, you can only remember the last three items on the list. This is known as ____." 1. Primacy effect 2. Position effect 3. Context-dependent memory 4. State-dependent memory 5. Recency effect

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"Your mother needs you to pick up ten items from Whole Foods. She rattles off the list quickly, leaving you no time to jot down a list. By the time you get to Whole Foods, you can only remember the last three items on the list. This is known as ____."

1. Primacy effect

2. Position effect

3. Context-dependent memory

4. State-dependent memory

5. Recency effect

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Memorizing is one of the important cognitive process of human nervous system. any information received via sense organs goes to respective cortex (like auditory cortex for auditory information) and finally get stored in hippocampus region.

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