In addition, retention of memory is usually considered hierarchical. The tip-of-tongue is common that is typically triggered when one temporarily fail to retrieve from memory, but which is likely to be reinstated or entirely recalled when one put the information retrieving in the context in which it occurred involves working with context cues to aid retrieval. Therefore, the temporary failures of retrieval, the tip-of-tongue phenomenon, can only called part forgetting.
Similarly, the reason why most students prefer multi-choice questions to short answer questions can be associated to two kinds of hierarchical retention of memory, recognition and recall. Multi-choice is a test measure of recognition for retention of memory whereas short answer is to examine the retention of recall. It is true that a student’s performance on recognition test, where he only need to circle an answer from an array of options, is much more superior to his performance on the recall test without any cues.
Ok, it is completely believed that we will achieve different forgetting curves based on different hierarchical tests for retention of memory, contrary to forgetting.
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