Question

An experimenter reads a list of 30 words to a group of participants at the rate of 1 word per second. This is immediately followed by a free-recall test. A second group of participants hears the same 30 words presented at the faster rate of 2 words per second. We should expect that the group hearing the slower presentation will show improved memory performance for the

Answer 1

pre-recency portion of the list, but there will be no impact on the recency effect.

Step-by-step explanation:

Recency effect: This is one of the parts of the serial position effect.

The recency effect determines the cognitive bias of a piece of information being learned. In this phenomenon, an individual tends to remember a piece of information that happened a short time ago comparative to the information that happened a long time back.

Example: when a student is provided with a list of words to remember, then the student would recall the words of the list from the last, hence the recency effect.