During list recall, people recall first items better {primacy effect}. For long list, people recall most words poorly. People recall items in middle worst.
behaviorism
By behaviorism, all previous words excite all following words and so associations for middle words are least correct, because they get the most-incorrect associations.
cognition
By cognition, mind rehearses first words when short-term memory is not full and so remembers them better, but middle words have poor rehearsal because they happen when short-term memory is full and so are not in short-term memory ready for recall.
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