How to use in-sentence of “recency”:
– Plus, research around the long-term recency effect may provide evidence for theories of the working memory model.
– The tendency to remember items towards the end of a list is known as the recency effect.
– However, distractor tasks can easily suppress or distract STM, explaining why they eliminate the recency effect.
– Instead, psychologists have found that asking participants to list the items in the ‘order they were presented’ decreases the recency effect.
– Why our memory prefers what happened at the end can be explained by the recency effect.
– Though Brodie and Murdock acknowledged that rehearsal is essential to the primacy effect, they asserted that the primacy effect may indirectly be a type of recency effect.
– Unlike primacy, the recency effect is not influenced by changes in presentation rates and list length.
– Newer research, however, shows that the recency effect can exist without STM.
