AP Psychology

Answer: B - The primacy effect refers to the tendency to remember with greater accuracy those items in a list that are heard first.
Key Takeaway: The primacy effect in information recall means that you are more likely to remember information that you heard first more accurately. This effect is probably due to increased attention at the beginning of a word retention exercise. It could also be due to your memory centers being able to encode this information efficiently which makes retrieval more accurate.