What Would Influence Primacy and Recency Memory in Serial Position

Abstract

The word at beginning and end of the list is easier to be remembered than the word in middle of the list. In some cases, however, this advantage does not exist. This article will summarize the factors found in previous studies to influence the primary and recency effects in three area, emotion, retention interval and language. negative information has a stronger primary effect. The primacy effect prevailed when delays were longer; the recency effect prevailed when retention intervals were short. Bilinguals' first language shows stronger pre-recency effects than second language. This article will help to understand how memory works in a free recall task