22. It’s easier to recognize information than recall it

Summary of Chapter 22:

- When you memorized a list of words and later wrote them down is called recall task.

- When you are shown a list of words or walked into an office and asked which items were on the list its called recognition task.

- In a recall portion of a memory task, these are errors that occur when the subject includes items that were not on the original list called intrusion errors.

- When children under the age of five were shown a list of items to memorize they make fewer errors of inclusion than adults because their schemata are not well formed.

- Many user interface designs today have been simplified due to knowing the issues of human memory. - It’s much easier for people to recognize information than to recall it from memory.