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Kiri ☂ ([personal profile] taotrooper) wrote2008-04-21 09:01 pm
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Stop with this crap, Cognitive Science!

Taken together the primacy effect and the recency effect predict that, in a list of items, the ones most likely to be remembered are the items near the beginning and the end of the list (serial position effect). Lawyers scheduling the appearance of witnesses for court testimony, and managers scheduling a list of speakers at a conference, take advantage of these effects when they put speakers they wish to emphasize at the very beginning or the very end of a long list.

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Another example of the recency effect is applied by lawyers. The key witnesses will go at the end of list (or the beginning to take advantage of the primacy effect), so the jury will keep them in mind while they deliberate.


*f-facepalm*

The more time I spend in this course, the more sense Ace Attorney games unintentionally make. WTF, man.

Damn, myself, less spam and more working on the report.