Measuring Memory

There are a lot of ways to measure memory and test our abilities in English. Some examples are mentioned next:

• Recognition tests: These tests tap the ability to identify information to which you were previously exposed. In our English learning it is very common to have tests that have multiple choice answers or true/false answers when we must match an stimulus with what we have stored in memory. They're simple and are helpful for us to make sure we know things and can remember them easily. One example of this is when a techer does an exam about vocabulary with multiple choice answers.
• Recall tests: These tap the ability to retrieve from memory information that is not currently present. Is like pressing a search button in our memory and try to construct knowledge. An usual example of these tests are those were we have to write essays. In those moments we have to construct knowledge and search for information that is not on the top of our minds. In English learning we've had to make a lot of essays where we've recalled information.
• Relearning tests: This type of researching on memory requires us to relearn information or tasks that we learned earlier but we don't remember. We will probably learn more rapidly the second time than the first one. An example of this is the alphabet song that helped us to learn the alphabet when we were little kids, at first we learned the song but when someone asked us about a single letter we didn't had it in the top of our mind so we had to relearn it to be able to know it singularly.