You Are Running a Study on the Serial Position Effect

Multiple Choice

You are running a study on the serial position effect in your lab. You decide to introduce a 30 second delay at the start of the word list and have participants count backwards by threes. Then they are presented with a list of 30 words to remember. Recall takes place immediately. This procedure should reduce or remove the

A) primacy effect
B) recency effect
C) episodic memory
D) source confusion effect
E) nothing-the delay needs to be at the end of the list to have an effect