"discuss several factors that contributed to the economic collapse of late 2008," asks a question on the midterm in an economics course. such a question is a test of memory.

The answer is "recall memory".

Recall in memory alludes to the psychological procedure of recovery of data from the past. Alongside encoding and capacity, it is one of the three center procedures of memory. There are three primary sorts of recall: free recall, prompted recall and serial recall. Psychologists test these types of review as an approach to contemplate the memory procedures of humans and creatures.