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Recall is the act of reproducing information from memory. In psychology, recall often refers specifically to the type of test that requires subjects to reproduce remembered information. Recall is usually characterized as relying primarily on the memory process of recollection, or the detailed retrieval of information from memory. For example, when you complete a fill-in-the-blank question, you recollect information on a recall test. Although recall and recollection are often used interchangeably, most literature suggests that multiple cognitive processes contribute to performance on recall tests and that recollection contributes to performance on non-recall tests. Recall is most often contrasted with recognition, the act of indicating whether a currently-experienced stimulus was experienced previously. Recognition is usually characterized as relying on a combination of recollection and familiarity, the vague sense of having experienced something before....
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Basile, B.M. (2018). Recall. In: Vonk, J., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1862-1
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