Primacy Effect
This is the law of memory where we tend to remember the beginning of a list relative to those presented in the middle of the list (e.g.: Person A reads a long grocery list is more likely to remember the beginning items on the list than those in the middle).
The primacy effect is based on a set of cognitive biases, but as with all laws, it can be broken.
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