recognition method

a technique of measuring the amount of material learned or remembered by testing a person’s ability to later identify the content as having been encountered. During recognition testing, previously studied items are presented along with new items, or lures, and the participant attempts to identify those items that were studied and those that were not. Also called recognition test. Compare recall method.

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October 9th 2024

Schröder staircase

an ambiguous figure of a staircase, which can be perceived as seen either from above or from underneath the stairs, depending on the perspective of the observer. It is often confused with the staircase illusion. [Heinrich Schröder (1810–1885), German bacteriologist and educator]