Effect of récence
The effect of récence indicates the facility to point out the last elements of a list of stimuli which one must memorize.
Postman & Philips (1965) and Glanzer & Cunitz (1966) presented lists of words various lengths then required on their subjects to point out the words which they remembered in the order that they wished (free recall). When the recall takes place immediately, the first and the last elements of the list are likely the most to be recalled while few subjects remember the medium the list. When the recall takes place after 15 or 30 seconds, only the elements of the beginning of the list have a strong probability of recall.
The authors interpret these experiments like a proof of the existence of a short-term Mémoire ( shorts-term blind ) responsible for the effect of récence. Whereas the beginning of the list would be pointed out long-term Mémoire (Effet of primacy) and thus still available after 30 seconds, the end of the list would be stored in short-term memory and disappears quickly after the presentation.
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