You could hear 1,000 jokes and not remember any of them when you wanted to retell one but remember every single one when you heard them told again. amirite?

The difference between recognition and recall

by Anonymous 2 years ago

That's it! That's what this is about

by Anonymous 2 years ago

That is simple to understand. You have some or all of the joke presented to you, so it triggers the memory. Before the person starts telling it, you don't know what they are going to say.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I guess it's recognition vs recall. Anyone can recognise a location they've visited before, but sketching it from memory is a completely different task.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I use the dvd collection analogy. If I ask you to list every dvd you own. You probably won't be able to get them all. But if I asked you if you owned a specific dvd. You'd know if you had it or not.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Nice, I think that works much better actually!

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Recognition vs recall was an excellent point. As a teacher, there is a huge difference between the two and it really complicates authentic learning.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Authentic learning vs... just memorization? What's the learning that isn't authentic? Truly curious, if you don't mind elaborating (since you're a teacher I'm guessing you don't mind)

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I could be wrong but I know as a kid I was always great at multiple choice tests because I could very easily recognize things once prompted, but struggled a lot more on more open-ended tests or in applying knowledge since I often couldn't recall it without any kind of prompt.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I guess this is why multiple option tests can be way easier.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I feel like this method was described in some type of computer science course I took about databases, But I can't remember the specifics.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It could be thats where I've remembered it from. I assume you are talking about indexing which I dont think this relates to.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Actually, it is all about indexing. If you're thinking RDBMS, you're hell out of luck, however in NOSQL, every recall is a query, even if you're navigating down a structural tree, it's the primary graph. This is like using a path to navigate to the right XML or JSON node, or whatever implementation the NOSQL pattern has.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I think it's time to update this one to Netflix list

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Indeed I know my house by heart but drawing it would be far more difficult

by Anonymous 2 years ago

is this why I can ace a test without studying but not remember a thing about it a day or two later?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Maybe! I think the thing about tests is that they provide cues for your memory retrieval. It's like someone giving you the setup for a joke and then you provide the punchline.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It is precisely that

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I have the data, I just lost my pointer to it.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

this is the analogy right here

by Anonymous 2 years ago

*starts scanning a terabyte of memory addresses* It's in here somewhere...

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yeah, I believe it's called triggered recall and it's part of why multiple choice questions are easier than free response.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yeah, but it's still an interesting observation of how memory works. The memory is there, but isn't available "on- demand." Or without a specific recall system. Interesting

by Anonymous 2 years ago

This is also why "Circle the correct answer" part of the tests were much easier than the "Fill in the blank" parts

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yep

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I remember my favorite joke. Goes like this. Ohm, Schrodinger, and Heisenberg are in a car speeding down the road when they get pulled over. The officer asks Heisenberg if he knows how fast he was going. He replied "No, but I can tell you where we are." The cop informs he was going 60 in a 45. Heisenberg says "Great! Now we are lost!" Finding their behavior odd the cop searches the vehicle. He calls out "Do you guys know you have a dead cat in your trunk?" Schrodinger yells "Well, now we do, asshole!" The cop moves to arrest. Ohm resists.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Username checks out

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Can someone explain please? I'm stupid but I want to understand

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I think it works better if the cop moves to charge them, but leaving it implicit is quite good too.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Cops don't charge people though. Prosecutors do.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yeah but people ask all the time "what am I being charged with" when being arrested, I guess depending how technical someone is the joke would land either way.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

that uncertainty principle joke is genius

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I hate that's I laughed at this

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I have a great knock knock joke, wanna hear it? You have to start it though..

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Every 60 seconds, a minute passes in Africa.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Does it "pass," or "happen?"

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Pass.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

This is jokerlogy

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Lol, that's hilarious

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Does this explain song lyrics? I can't recite any of them but once I hear a song, it all comes back to me.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Someone could list 1,000 books, and you can tell them whether you've read and/or currently own each one of them. However, you could not recall every book you've read or every book on your bookshelf from memory.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Recall vs recognition.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I know you think this sounds deep but it's essentially "you don't always remember things but you remember them when someone reminds you"

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I have the same problem

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yeah, it's called memory. This is true for almost everything you've ever heard.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

And of course, when put on the spot, there's always that one sticky joke that we can't shake from our memory that if you put a gun to my head, I'll tell every time: There's these two old men, sitting on their front porch, rocking in their rocking-chairs just watching the day go by. And this old dog comes up and lays down between them, and he starts licking himself, like dogs do. One old man says to the other "boy I sure wish I could do that", and the other says "He'll baaaht youuuuuuuuu".

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Recognition is always easier then recall.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Simple.Recollection easier than retrieval.That's why we fail in exams So you got to keep repeating the jokes in your mind to retrieve them faster

by Anonymous 2 years ago

The same thing applies to me for memes

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yeah that's a very, very, very common thing in regards to any form of memory

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yeah difference between receptive and productive knowledge/memory

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Just remember that you're dead

by Anonymous 2 years ago

You could not remember someone's name you met 20 times but as soon as someone says "that's Brian" you know that is in fact, Brian.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Stories like TV shows, movies, books, etc are the same. Ask someone to tell you what happened in a movie and they'll often just summarize it and stutter on the details, but as soon as you go to watch one you've already seen every moment is remembered.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

As a young bartender decades ago, I used to paste notes with punchlines on them down a pillar that only staff could see. At slow times you could keep up the banter with minimal effort.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Along these lines someone told me to remember the punchline and work your way backwards. Usually you remember the punchline as you don't react to the setup.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Makes sense.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

The availability heuristic

by Anonymous 2 years ago

What

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I worked with a guy that told jokes all day long. We worked 70+ hours a week and he told jokes all day and never repeated them.. I can't remember a single one.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yes, that is how memory works

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Now I'm getting a feeling I read this somewhere

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I see you too have watched Milton Jones's stand up act 😁🤭

by Anonymous 2 years ago

So forgotten memories work like a hash function

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I always wanted to be a stand up Comedian but i'm afraid when i get on Stage i could never remember any of the jokes i have made.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

God that sentence needed a comma 😖

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Memory is associative. This is why I use cruel rhymes for people's names and never forget a single one.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yup. I hate this.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Memory is weird, generally speaking we get the jist of what people are telling us but don't remember the exact words used, it means you can't really retell the joke but you understand the concepts in it and what made it funny

by Anonymous 2 years ago

That's called associative memory... It's what humans have

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Kinda like knowing all the words to a song when it's playing, or remembering what happens in a show as you watch it.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Memory is based on context.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

recognition vs memorization, not a lot of mind blowing here

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I actually heard it would be uncomfortable.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It takes practice to tell a joke and also takes practice to listen to one. You've listened to more jokes than you've told.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I was walking down the street, and I saw these three birds flying down this direction where there wasn't anything, and I said "Hey you birds! Whyyy, are you flyin' down the street that way!" No, no, wait...

by Anonymous 2 years ago

So very true. I have to check myself when I want to tell a joke I vaguely remember. Sometimes it works to just start in on it and hope it will come to you but just as often you get half way thru it and start bumbling.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Jokes are stored in the brain as a hash map instead of a vector

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Telling a joke requires use of the motor cortex (or muscle memory) and the sensory cortex, so it probably requires more brain power to remember a joke and tell it than to remember a joke as someone is telling it.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

could?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I had a couple of joke books in the 90s as a boy, one was aptly named 1001 jokes, the other one had a smaller number of jokes, can't remember exactly how many it had. Wouldn't be able to remember all the jokes that were in them but like op said if I heard them I'd probably remember them.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

You can remember anything when you are told it again?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

This is true except all I remember are the dead baby jokes from summer camp And of course the classic "What's the worst part about having sex with your grandma? Banging your head on the coffin lid"

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Well yes but actually yes

by Anonymous 2 years ago

This is the worst thing about seeing a stand up comedian. You spend at hour laughing your ass off then 2 day trying to remember what you were laughing at

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Or when you're trying to sleep

by Anonymous 2 years ago

You can tell me your name 100 times and I will still forget it. Tell me a joke once and I'll remember it forever

by Anonymous 2 years ago

aND MUFF'S THE PUNCHLINE.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It's the same thing like being able to sing all the lyrics to a song on command versus singing along with the radio. I only know like 5 songs by heart. But I can sing along with several dozen when they're on the radio.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Recognition and recall are two entire different things.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

If you hear jokes, it stores them somewhere in your brain. That path on where it is stored is based on the joke so if you hear one, your brains goes the same route as it went when it stored the joke. You can't recall the joke because you didn't store the path in your long term Memory

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I dunno about you, but #69 really busted my gut.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I have this ability...

by Anonymous 2 years ago

To recall my favorite jokes, I try to think about where I was when I heard or read them. If I browse through locations in my head, I'm likelier to remember the good'uns!

by Anonymous 2 years ago