CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

COGNITION AND EMOTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Erik tries to remember a series of items to buy at the shops. He is more likely to remember the first and last items. This is due to the ____ ?
A
Cereal opposition affect
B
Chunking of items in the series
C
He paid more attention
D
Serial position effect
Explanation: 

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: -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-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: -In simplest terms, the primacy effect refers to the tendency to recall information presented at the start of a list better than information at the middle or end. This is a cognitive bias that is believed to relate to the tendency to rehearse and relate memory storage systems.

Detailed explanation-5: -Items at the beginning of a series are stored in our long-term memory more easily because it takes less processing power for our brains to remember single items. As a series continues, our brains have to process groups of items, making the subsequent items harder to remember.

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