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recency|ˈriːsənsɪ|
[f. recent: see -ency. Cf. med.L. recentia (Du Cange).]
a. The state or quality of being recent. (Common in 19th c.)
1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 303 Such wounds, in their recency..resemble Vlcers. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 41 A peculiar antiquity or recency consists in several medicaments. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. cvi, She objected the recency of her kinswoman's death. 1800Coleridge Lett. (1895) 330 If I am not deceived by the recency of their date. 1875Maine Hist. Inst. xiii. 398 The comparative recency of legislative activity in Germany. 1882C. E. Dutton Tertiary Hist. Grand Cañon District v. 83 Even here where historic antiquity merges into geologic recency the one gives us no measure of the other. 1948H. Nicolson Diary 23 Sept. (1968) 149 Frank Pakenham tells me that I was on the list for peerages last December... I might have come up again had it not been for the recency of Croydon. 1964Language XL. 204 The recency and taxonomic character of paralinguistics and kinesics are not sufficient cause for overlooking them. 1976Nature 5 Feb. 395/2 Genetic similarity may serve as direct measure of the recency of the cladistic event which separated the two compared lines of descent.
b. Psychol. The fact of being recent as it affects the facility with which learned material or an experience is recalled; freq. attrib. Cf. primacy 1 b.
1894M. W. Calkins in Psychol. Rev. I. 482 The influence of recency, too, can be studied. 1916J. B. Watson in Psychol. Bull. XIII. 77 Other investigators hold that the stamping in of a successful act depends upon the principles of recency and frequency and is not dependent upon the pleasantness or unpleasantness resulting from the activity. 1929K. S. Lashley in C. Murchison Found. Exper. Psychol. xiv. 555 It seems probable that primacy and recency are effective only when they increase the intensity or stimulating value of the situations. 1938R. S. Woodworth Exper. Psychol. ii. 38 The wrong name recalled acquires recency value and blocks the correct name. 1948E. R. Hilgard Theories of Learning vii. 183 As it applies to memory, the law of proximity becomes a law of recency. 1964W. K. Estes in A. W. Melton Categories of Hum. Learning 98 The suggestion has been put forward..that the negative recency function results largely from response tendencies the Ss bring with them to the experiment. 1971Sci. Amer. Aug. 85/1 There is considerable evidence that the recency effect is due to retrieval from short-term storage. |