Serial+Position+Effect

toc = Definition: = The finding that, for information learned in a sequence, recall is better for the beginning and ending items than for the middle items in the sequence. Gen Psych Chapter 6, p. 176

= Examples: = When you are at a party and you meet a lot of new people and you can only remember the first few people you met and the last people you just met, you are experiencing the serial position effect.

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= Mnemonics: = SERIAL position effect...think of a serial number barcode and how you notice the beginning and end of the barcode but you don't really pay attention to the middle.

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