Bennet Murdock
Bennet Murdock appears on this site as author of the 1962 Journal of Experimental Psychology paper on the serial position effect of free recall.
Who they are
The work of Bennet Murdock reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to Serial Position Effect, Free Recall.
Key papers
Murdock, B. B. (1962). The serial position effect of free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology. What it reports: Described the serial position curve in free recall: a steep primacy effect over the first few words, a recency effect over the last eight and a flat stretch between.
Key ideas
Serial Position Effect: The tendency to remember items from the start and end of a list better than items from the middle.
Free Recall: A memory test in which people report the items they remember in any order.
Sources
- Murdock, B. B. (1962). The serial position effect of free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology.