CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

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.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -This is known as serial position effect. The improved recall of words at the beginning of the list is called the primacy effect; that at the end of the list, the recency effect. This recency effect exists even when the list is lengthened to 40 words.

Detailed explanation-4: -The serial position effect refers to the tendency to be able to better recall the first and last items on a list than the middle items. Psychology Hermann Ebbinghaus noted during his research that his ability to remember the items on a list depended on the position of the item on the list.

Detailed explanation-5: -The recency effect is the tendency to remember the most recently presented information best. For example, if you are trying to memorize a list of items, the recency effect means you are more likely to recall the items from the list that you studied last.