As a research participant, you study this list of words: curtain, book, anger, dirt, plant, hunger, paper, sadness, sunshine, mu
sic, disease, surprise, fired, love, test, pizza, electricity. When you are later asked to recall the list, which of the following words are you most likely to have trouble remembering?
You are most likely to have trouble remembering music. This is explained by the serial position effect. This is a term that describes the ability to recall the first part and the last part of a list, or the items in the beginning and the end of a group more than the items in the middle.
The primary effect describes the ability to recall the items in the beginning of the list such as curtain while the recency effect applies to remembering the last items such as pizza.
