How good is your memory? 

     What up, what up, what upppppp Lankers!!!! It's ya girl Olay once again. The topic for this week is MEMORY. Y'all don't know this, but I have T E R R I B L E memory. When I say terrible, I mean terrible. I do not remember anything from my whole childhood besides little things here and there. My years in high school are all jumbled together where I remember an event from my freshman year and think it happened during my junior year. Plus, my friends literally have to remind me of our friendship because I can not recall our special moments together. I took some tests to see if I really do have bad memory.

     The first test was to see how I am with remembering faces. If there is one thing I know, it is that I am good at remembering faces. I usually forget names and everything else, but I do not forget faces. Without a surprise, my results proved I was right. To test my memory, it continuously shuffled multiple facial images before me. Once I paused the dial, I had to memorize the facial features that it was paused on and reconstruct it. There were 10 features to remember, and I always got at least 7 right. I believe the assessment measured the specific type of memory accurately because it made me have to remember what was given.

     The next test simply gave me my overall memory score. Of course, they literally said, "Your results indicate that you have a great deal of difficulty remembering things. When it comes to absorbing information or recalling details, it appears as though you have very few sponge-like qualities". I have never felt so insulted by a computer in my life, yet I can not deny their data because it is true. However, I doubt their validity because they only asked me 7 questions, so I do not understand how they could come to that conclusion so quickly. 

     The last test I took was about memorizing numbers. They said a typical person's short-term memory could only retain 7 things in their mind at one time. What the game did was initially pop out with 3 numbers where I had to memorize it for 10 seconds and type it back after it disappeared. As it continued, the game gets more difficult because it adds more numbers to the sequence. I did surprisingly well until it went to 9 digits. After that, things started to fall apart. Over all, the test was pretty straight forward, and I believe it found an efficient way to measure number memory. But do you know someone that would have done extremely well with this test?? If you read my last blog, you would know!  

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/04/24/memory-improvement-tricks.aspx