When given a list of items to remember people tend to do better at recalling the first items on the list than the middle of the list. This is known as the?

This phenomenon is known as the "serial position effect," which describes how people tend to remember the first items (primacy effect) and the last items (recency effect) in a list better than those in the middle. The primacy effect occurs because earlier items have more opportunity to be encoded into long-term memory, while the recency effect arises from the last items still being in short-term memory. Together, these effects illustrate how the position of an item in a sequence can influence recall ability.