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Serial-position effect

Serial-position effect is the tendency of a person to recall the first and last items in a series best, and the middle items worst. The term was coined by Hermann Ebbinghaus through studies he performed on himself, and refers to the finding that recall accuracy varies as a function of an item's position within a study list. When asked to recall a list of…

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Primacy effect

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Serial-position effect

Nodes29
Edges28
Triples5
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.068966
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Serial-position effect

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related to Single-store models · 4
Serial-position effect → According, Another, In, Since
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Serial-position effect → tendency of a person to recall the first and last items in a series best

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Serial-position effectis atendency of a person to recall the first and last items in a series best0.90text
Serial-position effectrelated to Single-store modelsAccording0.60section
Serial-position effectrelated to Single-store modelsIn0.60section
Serial-position effectrelated to Single-store modelsAnother0.60section
Serial-position effectrelated to Single-store modelsSince0.60section

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