serial position effect / effet de position sérielle
Group: Human, Psychology
Groupe : Homme, Psychologie
Definition: The term is used to refer to the different rates of recall as a function of the position of the items in the list being studied (the primacy effect and the recency effect).
Définition : Terme utilisé pour désigner les différents taux de rappel en fonction de la position des éléments dans la liste étudiée (effet de primauté et effet de récence).
Broader term: memory phenomenon
Terme générique : phénomène de la mémoire
Narrower terms: primacy effect, recency effect
Termes spécifiques : effet de primauté, effet de récence
Related terms: Hunter-McCrary hypothesis, long-term memory, functional serial position curve, serial position curve, forward serial position curve, backward serial position curve
Termes associés : hypothèse de Hunter-McCrary, mémoire à long terme, courbe de position sérielle fonctionnelle, courbe de position sérielle, courbe de position sérielle antérograde, courbe de position sérielle rétrograde
Has study methods: recall task
Editorial note: Serial position effects are also observed in long-term memory (Healy et al., 2000; Sehulster, 1989).
Note éditoriale : Des effets de position sérielle sont également observés en mémoire à long terme (Healy et al., 2000 ; Sehulster, 1989).
Selected bibliography: Deese, J., & Kaufman, R. A. (1957). Serial effects in recall of unorganized and sequentially organized verbal material. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 54(3), 180–187. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0040536 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Glanzer, M., & Cunitz, A. R. (1966). Two storage mechanisms in free recall. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 5(4), 351‑360. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5371(66)80044-0 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Healy, A. F., Havas, D. A., & Parker, J. T. (2000). Comparing serial position effects in semantic and episodic memory using reconstruction of order tasks. Journal of Memory and Language, 42(2), 147‑167. https://doi.org/10.1006/jmla.1999.2671 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Jahnke, J. C. (1963). Serial position effects in immediate serial recall. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 2(3), 284–287. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5371(63)80095-X [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Murdock, B. B. Jr. (1962). The serial position effect of free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64(5), 482–488. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0045106 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Nipher, F. E. (1878). On the distribution of errors in numbers written from memory. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, 3, CCX–CCXI. Reproduced in Stigler, S. M. (1978). Some forgotten work on memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 4(1), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.4.1.1 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Robinson, E. S., & Brown, M. A. (1926). Effect of serial position upon memorization. The American Journal of Psychology, 37(4), 538‑552. https://doi.org/10.2307/1414914 [Study type: empirical study / Access: open], Sehulster, J. R. (1989). Content and temporal structure of autobiographical knowledge : Remembering twenty-five seasons at the Metropolitan Opera. Memory & Cognition, 17(5), 590‑606. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03197082 [Study type: empirical study / Access: open], Zwaan, R. A., Pecher, D., Paolacci, G., Bouwmeester, S., Verkoeijen, P., Dijkstra, K., & Zeelenberg, R. (2018). Participant Nonnaiveté and the reproducibility of cognitive psychology. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25(5), 1968‑1972. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-017-1348-y [Study type: empirical study, replication / Access: open]
Dataset citations: Zwaan, R. A., Pecher, D., Bouwmeester, S., Verkoeijen, P., Zeelenberg, R., Dijkstra, K., & Paolacci, G. (2017, July 26). Does Repeated Participation Affect Effect Size? An Analysis of 9 Cognitive Psychological Experiments. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/GHV6M