Talk:Serial-position effect

Merge

primacy and recency pages should be merged in; graph is missing reference/citation (it actually doesn't look like a standard serial position curve). Note: the SPE shows mainly primacy in serial recall and mainly recency in free recall, backward serial recall, probed recall, and cued recall This page needs substantial updating.

The example of trial lawyers is used in both the Primacy and Recency sections. One should be removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.138.90.90 (talk) 04:41, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Reminiscence Bump

Forgive me, for I am a lowly first year student. But what does the reminiscence bump have to do with primacy-recency effects? Apart from the fact they both relate to remembering stuff in a timeline? Alexforcefive (talk) 03:38, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Primacy and Recency Sections Too Similar?

There is a lot of overlapping information in these two sections. For example, recency is described in the primacy section. Also, lawyers and witness info appears in both. Should they be combined? Or separated, and then add a new section for Implications? Soave (talk) 08:30, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Serial position effect is a psychological theory and should be in the category of psychology and not philosophy. I'm a new contributor, so I don't feel comfortable changing it myself until I am more familiar with the process.DellaRuth (talk) 18:20, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Recency effect or something else?

Can the tendency to describe whatever's happening recently as the "best" or the "worst ever" also a symptom/realization of the recency effect or is that another cognitive bias? Ommnomnomgulp (talk) 19:58, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Underlinked Box

I linked this article to several other ones, it seems pretty solid to me so I think the underlinked box should be removed but I'll leave that to someone else's judgment. Phette23 (talk) 02:00, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Greek term

• τελάρκτιος: concerning the ending and the beginning — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:587:411C:3D00:1488:90C0:783E:A02D (talk) 14:56, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

Peer-Review Letter

The body of the article is very well comprised. The section on the primacy effect accurately describes the term and what role it plays in the serial-position effect. In addition, the recency effect section in the body of the article follows a same relevance and support to the reader in understanding the initial term for which the article was written. I was also impressed by the last section of the body of the article addressing other related effects. This was an interesting and helpful section as it brought to light other effects that are similar to the serial-position effect and helped the reader to further understand this term. I would suggest making a few changes to the lead, perhaps removing the two paragraphs that focus largely on the primacy effect. In addition, I would suggest adding a section on the originally experimenter's research and the history behind who coined the term and how the term came to be used. Perhaps this would be good to include in the lead. Something I learned from this article is the importance of organization and what an influential role that plays in enabling the reader to better understand the term for which the article was written. I plan on incorporating such an organizational structure in the article I will be contributing too! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aewlarsen (talk • contribs) 05:44, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Human Cognition SP23

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