LEARNING
HOW WE LEARN AND CLASSICAL CONDITIONING
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remember things they learn first better than things they learn last.
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remember the first and last things in a list the best.
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remember the last things in a list the best
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remember the first things in a list the best
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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 occurs because of a combination of the primacy effect and the recency effect. The primary effect makes it easier to remember items at the beginning of a list because it is easy to process and it gets stored in our long-term memory.
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: -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.
Detailed explanation-5: -For example, if a person creates a long grocery list, the serial position effect means that they will likely remember the first and last few items on the grocery list, but will have trouble remembering what is in the middle.