Murdoch's "remembering a list" experiment described the serial position curve and found that memory is best for of a list.

first five and the last five words                                                                                                                                          

Explanation:

Serial position curve: The serial position curve was introduced by a psychologist named Hermann Ebbinghaus.

In psychology, the term serial position curve is defined as a U-shaped curve of learning that is being obtained normally when an individual recalls a particular list of words due to fact that greater accuracy of recalling those words is from the end and the beginning of that particular list rather than the words present in the middle of the list.

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