... term memory can be retained if rehearsed by an individual, which increases the probability that it will enter the long term memory, where it has much less chance of being forgotten. The serial position effect provides support for the differences between long term memory and short term memory, a large proportion of experiments revealed findings on the area, which suggest that words at the beginning and the end of the list are recalled more successfully (Passer & Smith 2001). Glanzer & Cunitz (1966) conducted an experiment into the serial position effect. They believed that the recency effect could be eliminated by wiping out the last few words from the short-term memory, by delaying the recall test by 30 seconds (cited in Passer & Smith 2001) Passer & Smith (2001) described the primacy effect, as being the "superior recall of early words" and the recency effect as the "superior recall of the most recent ...

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