Walking on the Shady Side

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Walking on the Shady Side

By: Remon Hanna

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Course: PSY 102

For: Dr. T. Burke

Ryerson University

December 15th, 2003

ABSTRACT

The Primacy effect refers to people's tendency to pay more attention to information that is presented to them first (Passer, Smith, Atkinson, Mitchell, Muir: p.507). A psychology class was divided into 2 groups and they were both presented with similar scenarios about a student named Jim. The first group's scenario began with Jim leaving his school alone and then buying a drink which he enjoyed alone sitting on a side table. He then met up with some friends and started talking. The second group read a similar scenario about Jim. Their scenario dealt with Jim walking with friends in the sun as he socialized with many acquaintances along the way. When the sample audience was surveyed in the end, the primacy effect held true.

Walking on the Shady Side: Remon Hanna - part of the sample audience

An experiment was conducted in a first year psychology class to test and analyze data that is provided about the primacy effect. The primacy effect refers to our