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Table of Contents Abstract 2 Introduction 2 Experimental hypothesis 2 Null hypothesis 2 Method 2 Materials used 2 Procedure 2 Experiment 1 - With Interference task 2 Experiment 2 - Without Interference task 2 Results 2 Discussion 2 Conclusion 2 References 2 Appendices 2 Appendix A - Sheet given to participants Appendix B - Results (Interference) Appendix C - Results (Non Interference) Appendix D - Calculations Appendix E - Graph 1 Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate into the Primacy and Recency effect. The study was based on Glanzer and Cunitzs research (1966) who suggested that when remembering words, if given an interference task, the recency effect will be virtually eliminated. It was therefore predicted that when a group of participants were recalling words after having an interference task there would be little, if no recency effect. However it was also predicted that when an interference task was not involved there would be both a primacy and recency effect. The experiment was conducted on two groups of participants, 20 in each group. They were all students between the age of 16 and...

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