A primary effect is that people have better memory of items at the beginning of a list of items; The recency effect is very similar to the primary effect, although it is the end of the list that is remembered best. In this lab we discuss the fact that there is a certain list of items, people are more likely to remember the first and last words rather than the list of items in between. Usually the first words are recited before everything becomes harder to remember, the end of the list of items is easy to remember as it is the recent item although it gradually disappears due to the time difference, thus leaving the effect primary remains for a long time. term memory. In the lab I am shown a list of twelve words for five trials each and I record how many words I remember. The pattern of effect is that the list of words I was given could be related to one thing, so I would put a pillow down and the bed would be in the object list, but I would put a blanket on as if it were similar to being on a bed. As a result of the data, I found that I mostly remembered the fourth item on the list, although it was a rather low percentage compared to how many items I was able to remember.