What is the difference between tasks that require recall memory and those that require recognition memory?

Answer 1

Recall tasks require you to remember a list of facts and recite them back (for example, a person is given a list of words and then asked to write down as many of the words as they can remember at a later time).

A recognition task would be where a person is given the same list of words, but instead of having to provide the words themself, has to select the words that were on the original list from a new list of words that include new words mixed in with the original ones.

If you are taking a test, "fill-in-the-blank" questions would require recall memory, while "multiple choice" questions rely more on recognition memory.

Recall tasks are usually more difficult than recognition ones.

Answer 2

Recognition memory means you are presented with the options and have to pick what you are trying to remember, eg what the name of that restaurant was...look in the phone book and yes! that was it! you "recognise it'

Recall memory, you have to come up with it straight of the top of your head, no phone book! "call" it up from memory

Answer 3

Too funny. I was in the third grade, I used to write stories and the teacher would let me read them, I would get to laughing so hard and I couldn't stop and my classmates would laugh One day I wrote a story about a cat that ate lots of lemons and limes and got chronic diarrhea, I sort of got in trouble for it, but at the same time it was downright hilarious My classmates wanted to read the story, but my teacher had taken it away and sent it home to my parents.