In an online course, the most important resources (like the syllabus or final exam review) are placed at the very top or very bottom of the resources list. Students are more likely to notice and remember them there. If those same links were buried in the middle of a long list of files, many students would overlook them. This shows how placing key items at the beginning or end takes advantage of the serial position effect.
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Ebbinghaus had also documented the serial position effect, which describes how the position of an item affects recall. The two main concepts in the serial position effect are recency and primacy. The recency effect describes the increased recall of the most recent information because it is still in the short-term memory. The primacy effect causes better memory of the first items in a list due to increased rehearsal and commitment to long-term memory.
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