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 * __SERIAL POSITION EFFECT__**

//We are presented with situations as simple as remembering what we were supposed to buy at the grocery store to more complicated situations of having to memorize lists of vocabulary words in school in our everyday lives. Many researchers have found that the likelihood of recalling items (such as words, letters, or numbers) does in fact depend on the items position in a list. This is what is refered to as __serial position effect__. The most common finding is that words at the beginning and end of the list are often easier and more accurately recalled than those words in the middle of the list. The improved recall for the words at the beginning of the list is often referred to as the primacy effect. Likewise, the improved recall of the words at the end of the list is referred to as the recency effect.

A great example of how the serial position effect works __TRY IT !__// []