Question

Jason made index cards on a textbook chapter and always studied them in the same order. During the exam, he was able to recall the information on his first and last index cards, but not the ones in the middle. Which of the following explain why Jason was not able to recall the information from the middle of the chapter?

Answer 1

Primacy and recency effect.

Step-by-step explanation:

In social psychology, primacy effect is explained as the phenomenon which occurs when we tend to remember better the information that was given at the beginning of a series. We naturally recall more easily whatever it is that we see or hear first, than what comes next.

As opposed to the primacy effect, we have the recency effect that happens when we are able to more easily and efficiently appropriate the most recent information, the one we heard last.

Jason proves the accuracy of both of these principles, neglecting all the information that figured in the middle, while retaining only the first and the last.