Analyze the effect of the serial position effect on memory.

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In the serial position effect, recall is better for items at the beginning and end of a list than for items in the middle. The primacy effect is that items at the beginning of a list tend to be remembered. The recency effect is that items at the end of the list also tend to be remembered.
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