An Instructor Gives Her Students a List of Terms to Memorize

Multiple Choice

An instructor gives her students a list of terms to memorize for their biology exam. After allowing the students three minutes to look over the list, she asks one student to recite the terms back to her, from memory. What information will this student likely be able to recall from the list?

A) The student won't recall any of the terms because he has not used rehearsal to encode them.
B) Since there was no delay in asking for the terms, the student will remember those at the end of the list, showing a recency effect.
C) Since there was a delay in asking for the terms, the student will remember those at the beginning of the list, showing a primacy effect.
D) The student will recall only those items to which he has attached some meaning, regardless of where they fall on the list.