Blog Post #3 How Good Is Your Memory?

Number Memory Test
Going into this quiz, I thought I was going to do pretty bad, but it turns out that I am quite good with numbers. Coming from experience, I do tend to memorize peoples' phone numbers very easily. I ended up getting a score of 10 on the quiz. As I went along with the questions, I realized that they were getting progressively longer, yet I always ended up finding a way to memorize the long numbers. I would make the numbers into a song that I like or by just saying it over and over out loud until I got it. I don't believe this test is very valid, however, because there are many different factors that could change results, such as noise in the background or just the amount of people you are around when you take this. 

Memory Test Questionnaire
I feel like this quiz is a very inaccurate one. There was only 7 questions that they asked and I feel like they can't get a goof range of my memory by just using the descriptions, "sometimes" "never" and "rarely". I ended up scoring a 66 out of 100, and it said that I have fairly good memory, but I have the occasional memory lapse. Although I felt like it was quite inaccurate, they had some good points. They said I tended to use mnemonic devices, which I do often use to study. All in all, the quiz was a short, inconclusive questionnaire of my memory.  

Common Cents Test
This test was only one question, however, it was actually an interesting concept. I never really looked at what a penny looked at up close. I definitely knew that President Lincoln was faced towards the right and I knew that the penny had the year and another word on it. Although it didn't give me any results, I had a fun time trying to figure  out which penny was the real one because I feel like it's an everyday object that no one really looks at for a long time and looks at the features of the small coin. It said many people have a hard time finding the real one, so I didn't feel too bad about getting the answer wrong in the end.


Short Term Memory Test
In this memory test, I was given 12 words to memorize and then I had to recite as many as I could afterwards. I ended up scoring 7 words out of 12 and I hate to admit it but I was proud of myself. I thought I was only going to get like 5 words. I was pretty distracted while taking this, though, because I was watching Friends on Netflix and I couldn't help but focus on the show just a little more than the quiz but can you blame me? I actually think this is a good test to see how well your short term memory because you only see these words for a small amount of time and then afterwards you can forget about them and not worry about it.

Facial Memorization
I was given the task to memorize a face made up of jumbled features and then try to build the face later on. I was so surprised because, just like the other test, I was watching a show and was very distracted, however I ended up getting 7 facial features correct. I think that I am pretty good at recognizing the small features of people's faces because I tend to be detail-oriented. I can't help but notice everyone's small freckles and birth marks. This test just further showed me how well I can recognize peoples' facial features.