Memory Measure is a stack that will test your memory using 12 different tests to test your memory. 11 of the tests are random. When the testing is done, a rating between 0 and 100 will be given to you, where 100 is best and 0 is worst. The average is about 55 points and the accuracy of the score is +/- 5 points.
Shareware...
Memory Measure is shareware. That means that if you like Memory Measure, you are expected to pay me some money. I’ll leave it up to you to decide how much. Send the money to
Daniel Stødle
Fogd Dreyersgt. 21
N-9008 Tromsø
NORWAY
I will also accept registered shareware as payment.
If you have any suggestions, comments or bugs, you can e-mail me at Hakon.Stodle@kunst.hitos.no or send them to the address above. Feel free to include your memory score (it helps me figure out an average) as well as your age. If you give me your memory score, a Mem Score file is better than just your score and age. I will keep the information you give me confidencial.
Beta testers wanted!
Yep! If you want to be a beta tester for Yellow Lemon Software, contact me. I won’t pay you, but atleast you’ll get to see early versions of products from YLS! What you will be doing is testing the software, looking out for any bugs, giving me suggestions that can improve the software, etc...
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 one of the tests are "non-changing", in other words, it is not random.
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 a 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... It stores your skills... 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 takes place. 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, dreams and fantasies are often placed here. Some of us 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. The association memory has a lot of links to this part of the memory, but as time passes by, the links will deteriorate and leave you with a more or less unaccessable part of your memory.
Version history
1.4 - Fixed a few minor bugs, made sure you do not enter numbers on the letter test or letters on the number tests. I also fixed it so that you won’t have to press the tab key to shift between the fields on the number/letter tests, it is only one field. Memory Measure is now shareware. Added a test.
1.3 - Fixed yet another bug in the code key test, added a test and made the Association test harder.
1.2 - Randomized the poem test and fixed a bug in the calculation routine for the code key test.
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), but I think that the memory score given to you when you finish the test is quite representative for how good your memory is.
This stack can be distributed as much as you like, as long as it, the Read Me-file and the products list is unmodified. If you distribute Memory Measure on a CD-ROM, disk or similar, please let me know, and if possible, give me a free copy.
