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| Preferred Name | serial position effect |
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A memory phenomenon observed when items are recalled at different rates depending on whether they appeared at the beginning, middle, or end of a study list
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| bibliographicCitation | Healy, A. F., Havas, D. A., & Parker, J. T. (2000). Comparing serial position effects in semantic and episodic memory using reconstruction of order tasks. Journal of Memory and Language, 42(2), 147‑167. https://doi.org/10.1006/jmla.1999.2671
Deese, J., & Kaufman, R. A. (1957). Serial effects in recall of unorganized and sequentially organized verbal material. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 54(3), 180–187. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0040536
Robinson, E. S., & Brown, M. A. (1926). Effect of serial position upon memorization. The American Journal of Psychology, 37(4), 538‑552. https://doi.org/10.2307/1414914
Glanzer, M., & Cunitz, A. R. (1966). Two storage mechanisms in free recall. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 5(4), 351‑360. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5371(66)80044-0
Nipher, F. E. (1878). On the distribution of errors in numbers written from memory. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, 3, CCX–CCXI. Reproduced in Stigler, S. M. (1978). Some forgotten work on memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 4(1), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.4.1.1
Zwaan, R. A., Pecher, D., Paolacci, G., Bouwmeester, S., Verkoeijen, P., Dijkstra, K., & Zeelenberg, R. (2018). Participant Nonnaiveté and the reproducibility of cognitive psychology. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25(5), 1968‑1972. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-017-1348-y
Murdock, B. B. Jr. (1962). The serial position effect of free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64(5), 482–488. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0045106
Sehulster, J. R. (1989). Content and temporal structure of autobiographical knowledge : Remembering twenty-five seasons at the Metropolitan Opera. Memory & Cognition, 17(5), 590‑606. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03197082
Jahnke, J. C. (1963). Serial position effects in immediate serial recall. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 2(3), 284–287. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5371(63)80095-X
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| scopeNote | Serial position effects are observed in short-term memory, but also in long-term memory (Healy et al., 2000; Sehulster, 1989).
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| creator | Frank Arnould
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