Experimenters gave people a list of words to be recalled. When the participants were tested after a delay,the items that were best recalled were those

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This phenomenon is known as the serial position effect, where items at the beginning and end of a list are more likely to be remembered than items in the middle. This occurs because items at the beginning are remembered due to the primacy effect, where the first few items in a list are rehearsed more and therefore better remembered, and items at the end are remembered due to the recency effect, where the last few items in a list are still in working memory and therefore more easily recalled.

Experimenters Gave People a List of Words to Be Recalled