Memory Measure is a stack that will test your memory. When the testing is done, a rating between 0 and 100 will be given to you, where 100 is best and, well, er, 0 is worst. The average is 50 points (I guess) with an accuracy +/- 5 points (probably).
NOTE: Do NOT launch Memory Measure from a locked disk (a CD ROM, for instance), as this will make Memory Measure unable to set up the tests, etc...
Freeware
Memory Measure is freeware, but if you find it useful, I’d really appreciate a postcard or at least an e-mail. My e-mail adress is Hakon.Stodle@kunst.hitos.no and my snail-mail adress is
Daniel Stødle
Fogd Dreyersgt. 21
N-9008 Tromsø
NORWAY
Feel free to include your memory score (it helps me figure out the average). Suggestions, comments or bugs are welcome at any of the adresses above.
How often should I take the test?
If you are taking it just to check your memory score, no more than once a week. If you are aiming at improving your memory using Memory Measure, you can take the test as often as you wish, but keep in mind that two of the tests are "non-changing", in other words, they are not random.
How you can improve your memory
Have you gotten a low memory score? Do you just want to improve your memory? Well, here’s some of the ways to do it:
• Get hold of the latest version of Hypnosis and use the self-hypnosis scripts contained in it to improve your memory (don’t dismiss it right away, give it a fair chance, it surely worked for me!).
• Play memory games such as those where you lift to cards and try to find pairs. (Yes, it actually improves your memory!)
• Take the Memory Measure test many times (it will improve your memory, but be aware of that soon you will be entering the poem and the object locations blindfolded...).
Different types of memory
* Note that this is only my OWN speculations... *
The memory you use most, is the associating part of it. This memory type creates links between events and objects, smells or similar. Later this object or smell will trigger the emotions and feelings you experienced during that event. It happens every day, but you are not likely to make a note of it all the time.
The second memory type is the short term memory. This is the part of your memory you use when you are making small calculations (read the number from one place, transfer it to another), when you look up a phone number and dial it, etc... It is used very often.
The third memory type is the long term memory. This part of your memory is very weaved into the associating part of your memory, as it is usually the association memory that triggers a search in your long term or archive memory.
Then there’s the unconscious memory type. This is used every day, and you rarely even know that it’s there. This memory type holds the information about how you can speak, the alphabet, numbers, words... It also holds the information that enables you to walk, stand, sit down, etc... without falling or loosing your balance. It contains the data that tells your body which muscles to use when you want to walk, write... In other words, it’s a vital part of your memory.
The fifth type of memory is your reflex memory. This is used subconsciously, and is triggered by sounds, feelings, words or similar. One of the uses it has, is that it makes you do certain things when a certain situation appears - say you were in a bank that was being robbed or you was watching a horror movie, the reflex memory would send instructions to your brain of what to do and how to behave/react. Note that this is not in any way associated to the bodys natural reflexes.
Music memory. Everybody has it and everybody comes to hate it sometimes. Ever had a song "burned into your brain"? Can’t stop humming at it? This is your music memory. It is damn annoying, but very useful sometimes as well. Can’t love it, can’t hate it. It also has its connections to the association memory.
Image memory. This is were images of things that has happened to you is stored. Images/scenes from real life and dreams are often placed here. Some of use have such a good image memory that it is considered a photographic memory.
Dream memory - we all have it but unfortunately it "never" works. You wake up, and remember this REALLY cool dream you had, and then a few minutes later, it is gone, blown off your mind. Some of us have a good dream memory - they end up telling about their wonderful (or scary) dreams the rest of the day. Some of the dreams you have can be either so wonderful or scary that they are tatooed into your mind and you remember them, but this is normally not your dream memory, but your learn memory that learns events that happened in the dream and then passes them over to the reflex and image memory.
Learn memory, couldn’t live without it. This is the memory that places the knowledge and experience into the other groups of memory.
Test memory. You study for a test, complete the test, and then the knowledge is gone (more or less). That’s what the test memory does. It creates a place for things you need to learn, but only for a while. Then it goes over into the Archive memory, where it is nearly unretrieveable after a couple of years of non-use.
Last, but DEFINETLY not least, the archive memory. This is where all the memory types are grouped, as well as stuff you rarely use in a separate "drawer". If you read for a test back in 1990, you are not likely to remember all the stuff you read, unless you have used it at a regular basis. Although the association memory has links to the stuff here, it is hard to get to the material without seing an object you associate with that particular item.
Version history & future versions
I’m planning on implementing more tests and MAYBE randomize the poem/object location tests (it might get to complicated), as well as more ways to improve your memory and some short and long term memory specific tests. (The Number test B is only a preview of what to come). I’m also wondering if I should make the answering time limited as well, I’m open for suggestions.
1.1 - Added 3 tests, fixed a minor bug and added the "different types of memory".
The methods used to test your memory in this stack is in no way scientifically proven to be a good way to test memory (since I invented them as I developed the stack). It’s fun anyway.
