Everything about Recall test
In cognitive psychology, a recall test is a test of memory of mind in which participants are presented with stimuli and then, after a delay, are asked to remember as many of the stimuli as possible. Memory performance can be indicated by measuring the percentage of stimuli the participant was able to recall. An example of this would be studying a list of 10 words and later recalling 5 of them. This is a 50 percent recall. Participants' responses also may be analyzed to determine if there is a pattern in the way items are being recalled from memory. For example, if participants are given a list consisting of types of vegetables and types of fruit, their recall can be assessed to determine whether they grouped vegetables together and fruits together. Recall is also involved when a person is asked to recollect life events, such as graduating high school, or to recall facts they have learned, such as the capital of Florida. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Recall testA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A modified Cued Recall Test for detecting prodromal AD in adults with Down syndromeInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Memory improvedThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Test-expectancy and word-frequency effects in recall and recognition.Cited 79 times
- Go sideways: Encoding specificity principleA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Recall (memory)A closely related topic
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Test-expectancy and word-frequency effects in recall and recognition.
A test of the salience hypothesis of dream recall.
Does mood-congruence or causal search govern recall bias? a test of life event recall
Examining the relationship between free recall and immediate serial recall: The serial nature of recall and the effect of test expectancy
Construct Validity of the Babcock Story Recall Test
A Test of Two Methods of Recall for Violent Events
Test of delayed memory recall suitable for assessing postoperative amnesia
Introducing demographic corrections for the 10/36 Spatial Recall Test
🆕 Influential since 2022
A modified Cued Recall Test for detecting prodromal AD in adults with Down syndrome
Ten-words recall test: an effective tool to differentiate mild cognitive impairment from subjective cognitive decline
The 7-day recall period version of the Urticaria Control Test—UCT7
A Glimpse of Memory Through the Eyes: Pupillary Responses Measured During Encoding Reflect the Likelihood of Subsequent Memory Recall in an Auditory Free Recall Test
Characteristics of the quick repeat-recall test (Q-RRT)
📚 Books worth reading
Memory improvedBonnie J. F. Meyer, Bonnie J.F. Meyer · 1988
Pharmaceutical safety withdrawalsDominika A. Jegen · 2009
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🔗 Related topics
- Encoding specificity principle The encoding specificity principle is the general principle that matching the encoding contexts of information at recall assists in the retrieval of episodic…
- Recall (memory) Recall in human memory refers to the mental process of retrieving information from the past. Along with encoding and storage, it is one of the three core…
- Encoding (memory) Memory has the ability to encode, store and recall information. Memories give an organism the capability to learn and adapt from previous experiences as…
- Elaborative encoding Elaborative encoding is a mnemonic system that uses some form of elaboration, such as an emotional cue, to assist in the retention of memories and knowledge…
- Cue-dependent forgetting Cue-dependent forgetting, or retrieval failure, is the failure to recall information without memory cues. The term either pertains to semantic cues, state-depen…
- Free recall Free recall is a common task in the psychological study of memory. In this task, participants study a list of items on each trial, and then are prompted…
- Transfer-appropriate processing Transfer-appropriate processing (TAP) is a type of state-dependent memory specifically showing that memory performance is not only determined by the depth…
- Context-dependent memory In psychology, context-dependent memory is the improved recall of specific episodes or information when the context present at encoding and retrieval are…