People recall items at end {recency effect} best under free recall but not under order recall. Auditory items have recency effect but not visual items. For long list, people recall most words poorly. People recall items in middle worst.
behaviorism
By behaviorism, all previous words excite all following words and so associations for middle words are least correct, because they get the most-incorrect associations.
cognition
By cognition, last words are still in short-term memory and memory can recall them right away. For middle words, short-term memory is full, rehearsal is poor, and words have left short-term memory by recall time.
memory
Recency effects happen even when mind uses no short-term memory, only long-term memory.
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