serial position effect
English
Etymology
Coined by Hermann EbbinghausCategory:English coinages#SERIALPOSITIONEFFECT.
Noun
serial position effect (plural serial position effects)Category:English lemmas#SERIALPOSITIONEFFECTCategory:English nouns#SERIALPOSITIONEFFECTCategory:English countable nouns#SERIALPOSITIONEFFECTCategory:English multiword terms#SERIALPOSITIONEFFECTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SERIALPOSITIONEFFECTCategory:Pages with entries#SERIAL%20POSITION%20EFFECTCategory:Pages with 1 entry#SERIAL%20POSITION%20EFFECT
- (psychologyCategory:en:Psychology#SERIALPOSITIONEFFECT) The tendency of a person to recall the first and last items in a series best, and the middle items worst.
- Meronyms: primacy effect, recency effect
Further reading
serial position effect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia