The serial-position effect is the tendency of a person to recall the first and last items in a series best, and the items in the middle worst. It combines two component effects: the primacy effect, the tendency to better remember items near the start of a list, and the recency effect, the tendency to better remember items near the end.
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Core ClaimThe tendency to recall the first and last items in a series best and the middle items worst, produced by the combined primacy and recency effects. 1 Sources
1. Wikipedia: Serial-position effect
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Serial-position effect is the tendency of a person to recall the first and last items in a series best, and the middle items worst.
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