Blog Post #7

Week 7

Memory

I took the Short-Term Memory test, where I got 5/12. My short-term memory is genuinely pretty average, which makes a lot of sense given that my attention span is pretty bad. I also took the memory for everyday objects, and I chose the wrong one pretty consistently (attached below). 

This makes a lot of sense because I ended up convincing myself that something else was right after seeing more options. Finally, I also took the Problem-Solving Test, and I scored 61. I think these tests are a lot harder to believe in terms of accuracy. This is mainly because it's pretty hard to gauge how often you do something, and as a result, it also becomes difficult to know the score breakdown. Overall, I think these tests are accurate, or at the very least, I don't think the results are false for me. With that said, there are definitely issues with believing that these tests are the 'end all, be all.' There's no way one test can accurately predict a person's entire memory, and we should make sure that there is at least some skepticism regarding them!

This was a recent article published about memory (attached here). This article focused on how our memory recollection is ultimately better than we usually expect it to be. For example, we tend to remember more specific details about what happened in our day than things without connection to us (e.g., random photographs seen two days ago). Therefore, memory improves as long as there is meaning correlated to it.