The participants were chosen based on their availability during the period in which the task took place (lunchtime). METHOD Participants: The sample comprised of 17 male and female students aged between 16 and 18, from the outer suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. As for the delayed recall experiment, it was predicted that the words at the start of the list would be remembered more than those in the middle or end section. The predicted outcome for the immediate recall experiment was that the words in the beginning and end of the list would be remembered by a greater number of participants than those in the middle. It was hypothesized that in the experiments, the gap between the participants hearing the words and their recall period would affect which words they remember. The aim of the current study was to test whether a gap in between the participants hearing the words and recalling the words would affect which words in the list they remember. If there is a word in the middle of the list that is significantly different to the others, it is more likely to be remembered (von Restorff effect). To observe the Serial Position Effect however, the words in the list must be of similar characteristics and significance to reader. People have the tendency to perform poorly on words in the middle of the list as neither of these two effects are present (Glazner and Cunitz 1966 Postman and Phillips 1965). A theorized idea for why the Recency effect works is that words at the end of a list are better remembered than others because they are still in working memory when recall happens. One suggested theory for the Primacy effect is because of the longer length of time allowed before recall, resulting in more processing and the better recollection. The serial position effect is defined as “The tendency for items at the beginning and end of a list to be remembered better in immediate free recall than those in the middle.” (Glazner and Cunitz 1966 Postman and Phillips 1965) The Serial Position effect comprises of two parts: The Primacy effect (when words at the start are remembered better than those in other parts of the list) and the Recency effect (When words at the end of the list are better remembered.
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