AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The primacy effect is the tendency to remember and place more importance on the items at the beginning of a list. It is thought to be caused by a greater amount of time between the beginning of the list and having to recall the information in which to rehearse the items.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Primacy/Recency Effect is the observation that information presented at the beginning (Primacy) and end (Recency) of a learning episode tends to be retained better than information presented in the middle.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Primacy and Recency Effect (Glanzer and Cunitz, 1966) Using this method, researchers detected a pattern: participants can remember words better when they appear at the beginning of a list and at the end of a list. This has been dubbed the serial position effect (aka the primacy and recency effects).

Detailed explanation-4: -The primacy effect is the tendency for individuals without neurological impairment to show enhanced memory for items presented at the beginning of a list relative to items presented in the middle of the list. At test, items presented at the beginning of a list are retrieved from long-term or secondary memory stores.

Detailed explanation-5: -Among earlier list items, the first few items are recalled more frequently than the middle items (the primacy effect). One suggested reason for the primacy effect is that the initial items presented are most effectively stored in long-term memory because of the greater amount of processing devoted to them.