Recency+Effect

toc = Definition: = The tendency to recall the last items in a suquence more readily than those in the middle. Gen Psych Chapter 6, p. 176 Related to: Serial Position Effect

= Examples: = When you have been introduced to a lot of people and you can only remember the last few people you just met, you are experiencing the recency effect.

= Analogies: = The recency effect is to the end of a list as the primacy effect is to the beginning of a list.

= Mnemonics: = Recency applies to the end of a sequence because it's the most recent.

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