Test your memory as you wander around
Look at a license plate on a car, memorize it, then go to the next car and memorize it. Can you repeat the first one? Can you do a third? How many can you do and repeat accurately?
ArishMell · 70-79, M
That's a neat test!
I don't think I could manage that but it reminds me rather of a memory test within the "English Longitudinal Study of Ageing" surveys.
It consists of a recorded list of about twenty random words, then you are asked to recite those you can recall, several minutes' worth of other survey questions later; then again a bit later on.
I don't think I could manage that but it reminds me rather of a memory test within the "English Longitudinal Study of Ageing" surveys.
It consists of a recorded list of about twenty random words, then you are asked to recite those you can recall, several minutes' worth of other survey questions later; then again a bit later on.
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
@ArishMell Such a test would probably have said that I was older than I am now had I taken it in my twenties! I've always had a terrible memory.
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
@ArishMell Yes! From a practical point of view that's one of the worst things about being widowed because I always relied on my wife to remember people for me.
FreddieUK · 70-79, M
I could have done this easily when I was younger, but now?...It would be a challenge to remember the colour of the car I saw before the one I'm looking at. 🥴
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@JamesBugman I've often wondered something like that. Our brains do not work like digital stores but they are of finite size, so must surely have some sort of limit on what we can remember.