You've Now Learned About the Serial Position Curve

Multiple Choice

You've now learned about the serial position curve.The relevant research in your text describes this curve using a free recall task (participants are free to recall words in any order they choose) .Imagine that you conducted a "remembering a list" experiment using a serial recall task (participants must recall words in the same order they were presented) .What would you predict for the results with the serial recall task?

A) The same serial position curve observed with free recall
B) A diminished recency effect, relative to free recall
C) A diminished primacy effect, relative to free recall
D) Diminished primacy and recency effects, relative to free recall