CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-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 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-4: -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-5: -Here’s an example of the primacy effect. Imagine that you had to listen to a long list of words, and were then asked which ones you remember. Thanks to the primacy effect, it’s likely that you’ll remember the first words on the list much better.