COGNITION
STUDYING AND ENCODING MEMORIES
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Remembering the most important assignment you have to complete for school tomorrow
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Remembering the skills you learned early in life, such as walking
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Remembering the last thing your English teacher talked about in class yesterday, but nothing from earlier in the class period
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Remembering the names of the first two co-workers you met on the first day of your new job
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Remembering that your clocks must be moved ahead one hour when daylight savings time begins in the spring
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Detailed explanation-1: -For example, when an individual tries to remember something from a long list of words, they will remember words listed at the beginning, instead of the middle. The primacy effect aids an individual in recalling information they first see better than information presented later on.
Detailed explanation-2: -Even our memories fall prey to the primacy bias; for example, when patients were asked to recall information from a doctor’s visit, they remembered just over 50% of what was told to them, but that information usually included what was told to them first.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which of the following statements best explains the primacy effect? It occurs because the first few items in a list receive more elaborate processing.
Detailed explanation-4: -The primacy effect, also sometimes referred to as primacy bias, is defined as a psychological phenomenon in which people tend to recall facts, impressions, and other items of information presented at the beginning of a presentation, list, or event more easily.