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Direct linkTan, Lydia; Ward, Geoff; Paulauskaite, Laura; Markou, Maria – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
When participants are asked to recall a short list of words in any order that they like, they tend to initiate recall with the first list item and proceed in forward order, even when this is not a task requirement. The current research examined whether this tendency might be influenced by varying the number of items that are to be recalled. In 3…
Descriptors: College Students, Psychology, Majors (Students), Foreign Countries
Ward, Geoff; Tan, Lydia; Grenfell-Essam, Rachel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
In 4 experiments, participants were presented with lists of between 1 and 15 words for tests of immediate memory. For all tasks, participants tended to initiate recall with the first word on the list for short lists. As the list length was increased, so there was a decreased tendency to start with the first list item; and, when free to do so,…
Descriptors: Serial Ordering, Recall (Psychology), Experimental Psychology, Universities
