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Why no recall is scored less than a wrong recall? Suppose Im trying to remember “Whats the capital of Canada?

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Why no recall is scored less than a wrong recall? Suppose Im trying to remember “Whats the capital of Canada?

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” and I answer “Warsaw.” This seemed to me to be a much worse state of affairs than “I don’t know”Answer:Wrong answer may put you in more trouble or shame in life, but we are interested in the state of memory here. Wrong recall is usually caused by interference from other memories and is less indicative of lost memory traces. Zero recall, on the other hand, is a clear indication of lost or severely disrupted memories. Your grades should penalize you solely for poor memory performance. However, you can use theforgetting index,Learn : Rescheduleon theelement menu, or other tools to ensure that mission-critical pieces of knowledge stay permanently etched in your memory.

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