What is the tendency to best remember the items first and last studied?

The tendency to recall the first few and last few items studies is known as the serial position effect. The tendency to recall the earlier items is called the primacy effect and the tendency to recall the last few is known as the recency effect. This is because the first few items studied have been transferred to Long Term Memory whilst the last few- most recent- are still in short term memory.

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