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The evidence for short term memory and its hypothetical construct and its nature (w/word limit) The recency effect is another method of assessing the very small capacity of short term memory. The recency affect can be measured using "free recall", a process wherebye participants are shown a list of words and asked to recall them in any order immediately after the list was presented. The recency effect is demonstrated by the fact that the last few items in a list are usually much better remembered than items from the middle of the list. In 1966 two psychologists Glanzer and Cunitz found that people could remember a similar number of words from earlier in the recall list but not the few at the end, if the recall test involved "interference" i.e. the participant having to count backwards for 10 seconds after being presented the list of words. Also in the experiment, it was...

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