Question

Which of the following is true regarding recall and recognition?

1) Participants perform better on a recall test when they are told to learn a list, but show no difference on recognition.
2) In the "Becoming Famous Overnight" experiment, a recognition test was used rather than a recall test.
3) Internal cues can be used when completing a recognition task but not a recall task.
4) External cues can be used when completing a recall task but not a recognition task.

Answer 1

Recall is retrieving information without cues, and recognition is identifying information with the help of cues. The "Becoming Famous Overnight" experiment used a recognition test. Both internal and external cues can assist with recall and recognition tasks. The correct answer is Option 2) In the "Becoming Famous Overnight" experiment, a recognition test was used rather than a recall test.

Step-by-step explanation:

The statement that is true regarding recall and recognition is:

2) In the "Becoming Famous Overnight" experiment, a recognition test was used rather than a recall test.

The "Becoming Famous Overnight" experiment conducted by Jacoby, Kelley, and Dywan in 1989 utilized a recognition test. In this experiment, participants were presented with a list of non-famous names, and then later exposed to these names, mixed in with some famous names. Participants were asked to identify names that seemed familiar to them from the previous list. This experiment highlighted the phenomenon of "illusory fame," wherein people tended to incorrectly identify non-famous names as famous due to prior exposure, demonstrating recognition rather than recall.

The other statements (1, 3, and 4) are not accurate regarding the differences between recall and recognition tasks in memory studies.