If Lola begins to list all the classes she's ever taken in college, she will most likely recall her last few classes particularly well. What is this phenomenon called?

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Heidy

14 January, 11:06

If Lola begins to list all the classes she's ever taken in college, she will most likely recall her last few classes particularly well. What is this phenomenon called?

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Marc Garner · Answer 1

The recency effect

Explanation:

Recency effect: In social psychology, the recency effect is defined as the process of sequence related to presentation effect that arises because an individual's tendency to remember information that is being presented more recently in a better way instead of the information being present earlier and therefore it gains more weight while making a judgment.

The recency effect has been widely used in the researches related to impression formation.

In the question above, the given phenomenon is referred to as the recency effect.