PrimacyRecency

Effect
By: Claire Wetta and
Larissa Vasquez

Experiment
The primacy-recency effect was first tested by Bennet Murdock in 1962
A list of 40 words were read
Participants had to recall as many as possible within a reasonable amount of
time
Their total was added and then broken down by word

Results
Murdock found that nearly half of the people he tested it on were able to
remember the last four words he had said, therefore recency
Words listed at the beginning of the list were also recalled well because they
were put into LTM instead of STM, the primacy effect

1. Fairy

29
27

2. Acorn
3. Jam

27
25
21

4. Drown
5. Noodle

22
16
18

6. Lamp
7. Hotel
8. Cloud

9
10

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11. Essay

12

12. Ink

13. Onion

10

14. Bargain

15. Kangaroo

17

16. Moon

18

17. Tree

29

18. Snail

32

19. Queen

34

20. Good

35

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Our Results
In our experiment we found that our results had mirrored Murdocks and
found the Primacy-Recency Effect proved true.