In Ebbinghaus's memory experiment,the discovery that items near the beginning and the end of a list were more easily remembered than those in the middle is referred to as the ____.

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The serial-position effect is a pattern of memory recall where items at the beginning (primacy effect) and end (recency effect) of a list are more likely to be remembered than those in the middle.

In Ebbinghaus's Memory Experiment,the Discovery That Items near the Beginning