Psychology / Unit 6 Psych 0676 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Recall
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The idea
Recall is retrieving information from memory without cues that contain the answer.
In practice
An essay question requires recall, because nothing on the page supplies the material.
Where people slip
Recall is the hardest retrieval task and the poorest measure of how much is stored.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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