You examine the schedule for your favorite soccer team. the team plays 16 games each season. later, you try recalling that schedule for a friend who likes the same team you do. chances are, you will recall opponents at the beginning of the schedule particularly well. this is an example of the effect.

Serial-position effect

Explanation:

Serial-position effect is a tendency to recall or remember the first and the last items in a series best. The term was invented by Hermann Ebbinghause , he studied peoples' recall capabilities by asking them questions on what they remembered first from a given list. In turned out that people recalled items at the top and the bottom of a list best and items in the middle worst.

The first item is always the easiest to remember because is it the first to be stored in the dormant memory. The following item is stored together with the first one, the third one with the second one, etc. The last item is sored differently as well as the dormant memory 'feels' it's important and it's remembered longer for that reason.

the number of senators, and representatives, the state has in congress.

i feel as if they would both catch on before to long because they would see them to frequent