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RECOGNITION is often possible where recall is not. The inference that memory is superior when tested by the former procedure has been challenged by Davis et al.1, who showed that the number of alternatives from which the items seen previously must be selected was a crucial factor governing performance. When the number in the recognition test is as great as that which could reasonably be considered in recall, recognition performance is no better than recall.
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Davis, R., Sutherland, N. S., and Judd, B. R., J. Exp. Psychol., 61, 422 (1961).
Judd, B. R., and Sutherland, N. S., Inform. Control, 2, 315 (1959).
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DALE, H., BADDELEY, A. Alternatives in Testing Recognition Memory. Nature 196, 93–94 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/196093a0
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