COGNITION
THINKING AND LANGUAGE
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items at the beginning and end of a list, than in the middle.
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items in the middle of a list, than at the beginning and end.
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vocabulary words if you process them visually.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The serial position effect is the psychological tendency to remember the first and last items in a list better than those in the middle. The serial position effect is a form of cognitive bias, and it includes both the primacy effect and the recency effect.
Detailed explanation-2: -The serial position effect describes how our memory is affected by the position of information in a sequence. It suggests that we best remember the first and last items in a series and find it hard to remember the middle items.
Detailed explanation-3: -Experiments show that when participants are presented with a list of words, they tend to remember the first few and last few words and are more likely to forget those in the middle of the list. This is known as the serial position effect.
Detailed explanation-4: -Recency and Primacy Effects Items found at the end of the list that are learned most recently are recalled best (the recency effect), while the first few items are also recalled better than those found in the middle (the primacy effect).
Detailed explanation-5: -The serial position effect predicts that it is more likely we will recall items: at the beginning and end of a list. Memorizing someone’s name by associating his name with the name of someone you already know is an example of which semantic encoding technique?