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Active recall is a principle of efficient learning, which claims the need to actively stimulate memory during the learning process. It contrasts with passive review, in which the learning material is processed passively (e.g. by reading, watching, etc.).

For example, reading a text about George Washington, with no further action, is a passive review. Answering the question "Who was the first US President?", is active recall.

Active recall is much more efficient in consolidating long-term memory. Reading before an exam, would not leave a stronger long-lasting memory unless the recalling process is stimulated.

v • d • e Memory

Basic concepts	Encoding • Storage • Recall Attention • Memory consolidation • Neuroanatomy of memory

Long-term memory	Active recall • Autobiographical memory • Declarative memory • Episodic memory • Explicit memory • Flashbulb memory • Hyperthymesia • Implicit memory • Procedural memory • Rote learning • Selective retention • Semantic memory • Tip of the tongue

Short-term memory	The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two • Working memory

Sensory memory	Echoic memory • Iconic memory • Motor learning • Visual memory

Forgetting	Amnesia • Anterograde amnesia • Childhood amnesia • Forgetting curve • Memory inhibition • Post-traumatic amnesia • Psychogenic amnesia • Repressed memory • Retrograde amnesia • Selective memory loss • Transient global amnesia • Weapon focus

Research	Art of memory • Exceptional memory • Indirect tests of memory • Lost in the mall technique • Memory disorder • Reconstruction of automobile destruction • The Seven Sins of Memory

Related concepts	Absent-mindedness • Atkinson-Shiffrin memory model • Confabulation • Cryptomnesia • Emotion and memory • Eidetic memory • Exosomatic memory • Free recall • Involuntary memory • Levels-of-processing effect • List of memory biases • Memory and aging • Memory and trauma • Metamemory • Mnemonic • Prospective memory • Priming • Recovered memory therapy • Retrospective memory

Culture and society	Cultural memory • False memory syndrome • Politics of memory • Shass Pollak • Transactive memory • World Memory Championships

Notable people	Robert A. Bjork • Stephen J. Ceci • Susan Clancy • Dominic O'Brien • Hermann Ebbinghaus • Sigmund Freud • Jennifer Freyd • Patricia Goldman-Rakic • Jonathan Hancock • HM (patient) • Ivan Izquierdo • Judith Lewis Herman • Eric Kandel • KC (patient) • Elizabeth Loftus • Geoffrey Loftus • Marcia K. Johnson • James McGaugh • Paul R. McHugh • George Armitage Miller • Lynn Nadel • Ben Pridmore • Henry L. Roediger III • Steven Rose • Cosmos Rossellius • Daniel Schacter • Richard Shiffrin • Larry Squire • Susumu Tonegawa • Anne Treisman

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