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Recency effect

Posted byBrian Hopkins May 22, 2019

In contrast to the primacy effect, the elevated recall for words at the end of a list, due presumably to items being stored in and retrieved from short-term memory. 

See Primacy effect, Recall, Recall memory, Sensory, short-term (STM) and long-term memory (LTM)

Posted byBrian HopkinsMay 22, 2019Posted inUncategorizedTags: glossary

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