Familiarity and recollection
- Familiarity is the sense that you’ve seen something before. That feeling of, “ah, I’ve seen this before,” is commonly confused with actually being able to recollect said information.
- Recollection is much more than familiarity. To recollect something, you need to be able to produce the answer without prompt.
- When something feels familiar, but you can’t actually recollect it when self-testing, you have an incorrect assumption about your own knowledge.
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