Question

George, a fresh college graduate, is going to attend his first job interview. he has learned that he is one among six other candidates who have applied for the same job. applying his knowledge of the serial position effect, george asks to be either the first or the last candidate interviewed. why?

Answer 1

The serial position effect is described with the following experiment: Experiments show that when participants are presented with a list of words, they tend to remember the first few and last few words and are more likely to forget those in the middle of the list. . According to this, George asks to be either the first or the last candidate interviewed  because the interviewer will remember him better than the other candidates that will be in the middle.