Primacy-Recency Effect

Question 1

What did participants need to do?

Answer 1

Read a list of words and then recall them either immediately before or after a distraction

Question 2

What do the results show?

Answer 2

The recall do the first and last words was highest, whereas the middle words were low

Question 3

What is the primacy effect?

Answer 3

When the first words are remembered because they have been rehearsed and are in the long term memory

Question 4

What is the recency effect?

Answer 4

When the last few words are remembered because they are still in the short term memory and they haven’t been displaced yet