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Order Matters: Why the First (and Last) Thing You Focus on Shapes Your Love Life · A Capture Deep Vibs A Positive Space For Inspiration And Embracing Of Heart

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  Speaker 1: Hey, Casey Hidalgo here, a writer for Psych2Go. net, and today
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be talking about that theory that order
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  Speaker 1: is key. Do you remember in elementary school when you
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  Speaker 1: would have to take those vocab quizzes? They would only
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  Speaker 1: be about 10 words long, but you still had so
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  Speaker 1: much trouble memorizing them and studying for them because you
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  Speaker 1: realized as you were quizzing yourself after reading the list
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  Speaker 1: over and over that you could only remember the first
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  Speaker 1: and last words? Well, this phenomenon is known as the
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  Speaker 1: serial position effect. As stated above, this effect occurs when
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  Speaker 1: you are trying to memorize something, just simple rote memorization,
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  Speaker 1: and you find that really you can only remember the
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  Speaker 1: first and last object. This was first documented in 1962
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  Speaker 1: by a researcher named Murdoch. They broke the effect up
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  Speaker 1: into two different parts and illustrated it with a U-shaped curve. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: the U-shaped curve means that you begin something at a
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  Speaker 1: high point, and lose track of it in the middle
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  Speaker 1: only to end again at a high point. That would
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  Speaker 1: be the primary effect and the recency effect, the two
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  Speaker 1: points of the U. Now, the reason we fall into
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  Speaker 1: this U-shaped curve and this weird serial effect of rote
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  Speaker 1: memorization is because we tend to start off a task
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  Speaker 1: with intense focus, otherwise known as the primary effect. So
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  Speaker 1: we intensely focus on the first word because we start,
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  Speaker 1: it's the beginning of what our task is. And so
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  Speaker 1: that's why we remember it so much. The U, where
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  Speaker 1: everything falls in the middle, is where everything falls and
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  Speaker 1: the task begins to lose focus. We then again have
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  Speaker 1: to end off on a high note, and that's how
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  Speaker 1: we remember the last word, because we try to end
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  Speaker 1: everything on a high note. And also because it's so
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  Speaker 1: much closer to how we end that we're more able
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  Speaker 1: to remember it. But that only works when you know
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  Speaker 1: the length of a list. What if you didn't give
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  Speaker 1: participants the length of the list? How if it was
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  Speaker 1: like super long, would they still be able to remember
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  Speaker 1: the first word as well as the last word? For now,
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  Speaker 1: it has to remain as food for thought.