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Retrieval: getting information out
To remember an event requires not only getting it in (encoding) and retaining it (storage), but also getting it out. To most people, memory is recall, the ability to retrieve information not in conscious awareness. To a psychologist, memory is any sign that something learned has been retained. So recognizing or more quickly relearning information also indicates memory.

Long after you cannot recall most of the people in your high school graduating class, you may still be able to recognize their yearbook pictures from a photographic lineup and pick their names from a list of names. Harry Bahrick and his colleagues (1975) reported that people who had graduated 25years earlier could not recall many of their old classmate, but they could recognize 90 percent of their pictures and names. If you are like most students, you, too, could likely recognize more names of the seven......

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