Maintenance rehearsal and serial position effect

Question 1

What is the serial position effect evidence for?

Answer 1

Separate STM and LTM

Question 2

Free recall tends to be best for…

Answer 2

items at the end and the beginning of a list and worst for those in the middle

Question 3

primacy effect

Answer 3

superior recall for items at the beginning of a list

- Items at the start of the list have been attended to and rehearsed and therefore have been transferred into LTM

Question 4

Recency effect

Answer 4

superior recall for items at the end of a list as these words are still in STM

Question 5

why is there poor recall for words in the middle of the list?

Answer 5

the words are presented too late in the list to be rehearsed enough to go into LTM but were too early in the list to be in STM

Question 6

maintenance rehearsal

Answer 6

simple, rote repetition of information being remembered can be retained but no meaning is added so it just holds information in STM for a longer time