(Q008) While preparing for his first Chemistry exam, Jaden is studying the elements and trying to memorize their abbreviations. On test day, he is frustrated because he studied 30 elements but can only remember the abbreviation for the last 5. This tendency to remember items at the end of a list of data is called

The answer is the recency effect.

Explanation:

The recency effect states that people will remember the most recent information more easily. For example, if a person takes five subjects a day at school, he will probably remember the last class better than the previous four.

This phenomenon is related to the serial-positon effect, which states that the position of the items in a list influences the way we remember them. More specifically, we remember the items at the beginning and the end the best, and the middle ones the worst.