This is hardly surprising, given the essential role played by this capacity in daily life. You couldn’t make a cup of coffee without being able to recollect the order in which you must proceed: filling the coffee pot, filling the basket with coffee, applying heat, waiting until the water boils, pouring the coffee into a mug, and so on. Forget the correct sequence and things would not go well. In the same way, if you want to remember the events of your morning, you will probably start with the time you woke and move through each subsequent small episode in sequence. Thus, how we recall words in a list (the strong tendency toward order recall) offers a model of one of the most critical functions in our daily lives.