Luke tried his best to remember the items from his grocery list he left at home, but he could only remember the first few items. This is an example of __________.

The primacy effect is the tendency to remember items at the beginning of a list better than items in the middle or at the end. Since Luke remembers the first few grocery items, this is an example of primacy, not recency, which involves remembering the last items.

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