Creating a False Memory and the Serial-Position Effect

My first volunteer was my boyfriend, Kheland. I read him the first list of words and he remembered six out of the fourteen words. He remembered seven out of fourteen words in the second list. He wrote needle from the first list and did not write sleep for the second list. Kheland wrote down the words from the beginning and of the end of the first list and did not write the middle and the same thing goes for the second list.
My second volunteer was my brother, Jonah. I read him the two lists of words and he did about the same as Kheland. Jonah remembered eight out of the first list and six out of the second list. He didn't write sleep or needle and he too wrote mostly words from the beginning and end of the lists and wrote one from the middle of the first list.
My boyfriend was disappointed with how his results turned out, but he actually did better than I thought that he would because he does not remember anything that I tell him and he doesn't have the best memory. Kheland did create a false memory by writing down the word needle when it wasn't actually on the list. He just wrote it because the other words can be associated with the word needle. Jonah didn't create a false memory, but him and Kheland both found themselves using the serial-position effect. They both mainly recalled words from the beginning and the ends of the lists.