serial position effect

• who made the term 'serial position effect'?

  Hermann Ebbinghaus
• what does serial position effect mean?


  recall accuracy varies as a function of am items position within a list
• what is the recency effect?


  the tendency to begin recall with the end of a list
• what is the primacy effect?


  the tendency to recall the beginning of a list
• what model does the serial position effect support?


  multi-store model of memory

  (separate stores)
• why does the recency effect happens?


  information still exposed in short-term memory
• why does the primacy effect happen?


  due to longer rehearsal time to be encoded to LTM