primacy and recency effects in recall

the position in which something is placed, affects our

• ability to learn

• rehearsal

• re learning

• recall

the position in which something is placed, affects our recall. For example if given a list of 7 numbers, it has been found that we can recall the numbers provided at the

• all of the list

• middle and end of a list

• beginning and the end of a list

• beginning and middle of a list

recalling the beginning and end of a list is easiest, this is known as

• last effect

• the primacy and

• ending effect

• recency effect

• the beginning and

primacy refers to the increased ability to

• remember all of the items

• remember the items in the middle

• remember the items at the end

• remember the items at the start

and recency

• at the end

• at the beginning

• in the middle

• beginning and the end

who investigated this phenomenon

• Moss's serial position curve study

• Multi-store model of memory

• Marcus robinsons memory investigation

• Murdock's serial position curve study

Murdock's serial position curve study was investigated in

• 1990's

• 1962

• 1952

• 1940's

Murdock asked participants to remember words from a list, and he found that people were more likley to remember words at the beginning and end of a list

His conclusion about why this occurs is that words from the beginning of the list had been moved into the

• sensory store

• LTM store

• STM store

• decay store

and the words from the end of a list were still in the

• decay store

• sensory store

• LTM store

• STM store

words from the end of a list were still in the STM store, so were easily

• learnt

• recalled

• maintained

• decayed