serial position effect
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Etymology
Noun
serial position effect (plural serial position effects)
- (psychology) The tendency of a person to recall the first and last items in a series best, and the middle items worst.
- Meronyms: primacy effect, recency effect
Further reading
serial position effect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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