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 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-3: -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-4: -The primacy effect involves rehearsing items until they enter long-term memory. The recency effect involves the brain’s ability to hold up to seven items in short-term memory.

Detailed explanation-5: -Items found at the end of the list that are learned most recently are recalled best (the recency effect), while the first few items are also recalled better than those found in the middle (the primacy effect). You have probably experienced this effect many times when you try to learn something new.