Glanzer and Cunitz (1966) showed that, if you give participants a list of about 20 words, presenting them one at a time, then ask them to recall any words they can remember, you can observe an intresting effect.
Participants tend to remember the words from the words from the start of the list (a primacy effect) and from the end of the list (a recency effect) but are less good at recalling the weords in the middle.
Primicay effect occurs because the first words are rehearsed and transferred to LTM.
Recency effect occurs beacuse these words are in STM when you start recalling the list.
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