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Family's Menu Choices
- Andrew Bustemonte's family consistently picks the first or last items on menus while in Portugal.
- This observation sparked his discussion on the recency and primacy effects.
Recency and Primacy Effects
- The recency effect explains why people remember the last things in a list, like phone numbers or stories.
- The primacy effect explains why the first item is also memorable.
Cognitive Effects
- Recency and primacy effects are cognitive, not cultural or educational.
- These effects influence how humans interact with information.