More participants in a study can recall the words in the beginning and in the end of a list than can recall words in the middle of a list. This is called __________.

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The serial position effect is a pattern of recall where individuals have a tendency to remember the first and last items in a series better than the middle items, which explains the phenomenon described.

More Participants in a Study Can Recall the Words in the Beginning