Twenty years after graduating, a subject is able to correctly "pick out" photographs of students she attended high school with from a larger group of strangers. To do so she has used
A)recall.
B)recognition.
C)eidetic imagery.
D)reminiscence.

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Recognition is the cognitive process of identifying previously encountered information, such as recognizing faces or images from the past. In this scenario, the subject is recognizing photographs of former classmates among pictures of strangers, which is a classic example of recognition.

Twenty Years After Graduating, a Subject Is Able to Correctly