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memory
You only remember the beginning and the end.
Ebbinghaus (1885) identified the serial position effect, but the explanation attributing it to the interaction between short-term working memory and long-term memory is a modern interpretation.
The dual-store model of memory (Atkinson-Shiffrin, 1968) provides the explanation of STM/LTM, not the original 1885 research.
The middle of any sequence is a cognitive blur.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Ebbinghaus, 1885
- What the check found
- Ebbinghaus documented the serial position effect, but the 'STM vs. LTM' mechanism is an anachronistic explanation formalized decades later.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
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