Memorizing items on a list are enabled by the effects of primacy and
recency.
Ordinarily, material presented <u>in the middle of a list </u> is usually the most
difficult to remember due to interference.
Reasons:
When memorizing a list of items, due to the primacy effect, the information
at the beginning of the list are given importance, in the brain, due to their
many attributes, which may be due to them being;
- Definition of the task (assignment of importance level)
- Idea of what to expect (preparation of the mind)
Also the last items on the list are recalled by the effect known as recency,
which is probably due to the tendency to store items in the short term
memory.
Therefore, in the course of memorizing a list, the first items on the list can
be stored in the long-term memory. The items that comes last in the
list are stored in the short-term memory, while the material presented in
the middle of the list are not allocated to a storage, and are usually
the most difficult to remember due to interference, by other items that
tend to come up during the retrieval process, from the long-term memory.
<em>(Rearranging the list can aid total recall)</em>
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<em>The possible question options as obtained from a similar question online, are;</em>
- <em>At the beginning</em>
- <em>Last</em>
- <em>At the end</em>
- <em>In the middle of a list</em>
