The Research on Goal Setting and Planning

There are primacy and recency effects that are well established in the research on memory. Primacy is you hear lots of things in an episode, possibly you'll remember the first things better than anything else. There 's also recency effects, which are, when we have a list of things to remember, there are some cases where you would remember the last thing that you saw better. And why is that? Completely different mechanism. You're rehearsing it for longer. But it's just like there in the buffer of your working memory. So there are some advantages for being early. There's some advantages that are different for being late.