My Memory Put to the Test

To test my member, I decided to take the verbal memory test: http://www.memorylossonline.com/learning_memory/mem_games/verbaltest1.html
For this test, I had to read a list of 40 words and decide whether my associations with each of them are very pleasant, mildly pleasant, mildly unpleasant, or very unpleasant not knowing that the next page was going to ask me to recall as many of those words as I can. After I typed as many words as I could remember, I was given 40 word pairs. In each pair, one word was new and the other was from the original list, and I was supposed to identify as many words that were on the original list as possible.







My results actually turned out better than I expected. My recall score was an 11 out of 40 (not bad). My recognition score was 39 out of 40 (niceee). According to this website, the average score for the recall test was about 6. The "normal" was between 3 and 10. People who scored above 10 (like me) are doing better than 75% of the people who took this test. The average score for the recognition test was about 38. A score between 36 and 40 was considered "normal." Although I scored pretty well on this test, I do not think this test is very valid. I usually do not have a good memory especially when it comes down to recalling information. However, it feels good to see that I scored better than 75% of the people who took this test!