The brain automatically associates perceptual fluency, or ease of storage, with retrieval fluency, ease of recall.
This rule of thumb works pretty well most of the time, but it can lead to big mistakes when frequency and ease of recall diverge.
Availability bias arises if the expert is affected by the ease of recall or the memory of recent experience.
Care was taken to avoid confusing the order and apparent ease of recall of issues with their importance to the interviewee.
However, the two memory types were highly similar on a range of characteristics that included vividness, ease of recall, and amount of detail (see Supporting Information, Table S1, and Bonnici et al., 2012a for full details of memory matching).
Recent and remote memories were closely matched on factors such as vividness, level of detail, emotional valence, ease of recall, and frequency of retrieval since the initial episode (see Table S1 in Supporting Information).
Estimating the likelihood of a diagnosis with ease of recall is more convenient and often appropriate as familiar diagnoses tend to be those commonly encountered but can lead to error when significant disease is the underlying reason for the encounter.
In contrast, the structure of some instruments is to sum multiple subscales [ 38, 40] or to test multiple criteria for each sedation level [ 36, 37], thus adding complexity and potentially impairing ease of recall.
In direct opposition to the ease of those recalls, I can't remember what I ate this morning, among other embarrassing memory gaps that drive my partner (among others) into fits of rage.
