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Serial Position EffectIn what is known as the serial position effect, items at the beginning of a list are the easiest to recall, followed by the items near the end of a list. Items in the middle are the least likely to be remembered. This effect can be thought of as a combination of the recency effect and primacy effect, as well as the Von Restorff effect (assuming that the beginning and ends of a list stand out cognitively). According to the time-of-day effect, the relative strength of primacy and recency may differ by the time of day. Some have suggested that this effect could be applied to learning by placing the most difficult items to learn sequentially at the beginning and end. See also: list of memory biases. References - Frensch, P. A. (1994). Composition during serial learning: a serial position effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20, 2, 423-443.
* 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, 147-167.
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