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Definitions of recency in various dictionaries:
noun - a time immediately before the present
noun - the property of having happened or appeared not long ago
adv - of or pertaining to a time not long past [ adj -CENTER, -CENTEST] : RECENTLY
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New condition: finally, for good behaviour, getting day off |
State of being new |
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Oct 7 2018 The Washington Post |
Nov 7 2014 The Telegraph - Toughie |
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The property of being recent, newness |
in recent years. of or belonging to a time not long past. (initial capital letter) Geology. noting or pertaining to the present epoch, originating at the end of the glacial period, about 10,000 years ago, and forming the latter half of the Quaternary Period Holocene. |
the property of having happened or appeared not long ago |
a time immediately before the present |
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Serial-position effect is the tendency of a person to recall the first and last items in a series best, and the middle items worst. The term was coined by Hermann Ebbinghaus through studies he performed on himself, and refers to the finding that recall accuracy varies as a function of an item's position within a study list. When asked to recall a list of items in any order (free recall), people tend to begin recall with the end of the list, recalling those items best (the recency effect). Among earlier list items, the first few items are recalled more frequently than the middle items (the primacy effect).One suggested reason for the primacy effect is that the initial items presented are most effectively stored in dormant memory because of the greater amount of processing devoted to them. (The first list item can be rehearsed by itself; the second must be rehearsed along with the first, the third along with the first and second, and so on.) The primacy effect is reduced when items are p |