Psychology GCSE
Effect of delay
What Effect of delay means in Psychology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Effect of delay
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A delay or distracting task before recall largely removes the recency effect because the last items are displaced from short-term memory, while primacy remains.
Topics that use Effect of delay
- Memory (AQA GCSE)
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- Capacity
- Classifying examples by content
- Coding
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- Distinguishing stores by feature
- Duration
- Effort after meaning
- Encoding
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