hmm, that’s fair — i guess there’s another, finer distinction here between “active recall” and chaining the mental motion of recalling of something to some triggering mental motion. i usually think of “active recall” as the process of:
mental-state-1
~stuff going on in your brain~
mental-state-2
over time, you build up an association between mental-state-1 and mental-state-2. doing this with active recall looks like being shown something that automatically triggers mental-state-1, then being forced to actively recall mental-state-2.
with names/faces, i think that if you were to e.g. look at their face, then try to remember their name, i’d say that probably counts as active recall (where mental-state-1 is “person’s face,” mental-state-2 is “person’s name,” and ~stuff going on in your brain~ is the mental motion of going from their face to their name).
I’m confused, isn’t saying their name in a sentence an example of active recall?
hmm, that’s fair — i guess there’s another, finer distinction here between “active recall” and chaining the mental motion of recalling of something to some triggering mental motion. i usually think of “active recall” as the process of:
mental-state-1
~stuff going on in your brain~
mental-state-2
over time, you build up an association between mental-state-1 and mental-state-2. doing this with active recall looks like being shown something that automatically triggers mental-state-1, then being forced to actively recall mental-state-2.
with names/faces, i think that if you were to e.g. look at their face, then try to remember their name, i’d say that probably counts as active recall (where mental-state-1 is “person’s face,” mental-state-2 is “person’s name,” and ~stuff going on in your brain~ is the mental motion of going from their face to their name).
thanks for pointing that out!