Anna sits at her kitchen table and is able to think about what she needs to buy from the grocery store. She is using her ability to:

Recall is retrieving stored information from memory without any cues present, as Anna does when she thinks of what to buy without seeing the items.

Recognition is identifying something as familiar when it is presented, which needs the item to be in front of the person.

Reciting is repeating information aloud from memory, an act of expression rather than the internal retrieval described.

Memorizing is the process of committing information to memory, not the later act of retrieving it.

Recall demands free retrieval, while recognition relies on matching against a presented cue.

Free recall, cued recall and serial recall are the standard measured forms of recall.