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. The serial position effect is a form of cognitive bias, and it includes both the primacy effect and the recency effect.

Detailed explanation-2: -Items in the middle of a series are harder to remember because they are no longer in our short-term memory, but they haven’t been processed for long enough to be 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: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -When asked to recall a list of items in any order (free recall), people tend to begin recall with the end of the list, recalling those items best (the recency effect). Among earlier list items, the first few items are recalled more frequently than the middle items (the primacy effect).