Short Term Memory Test: Results
Your Score
Out of a maximum possible score of 12, you scored 0.
Is this a good score?
Let's compare this to average short term memory scores. Harvard-based psychologist George A Miller found that in our short term memory, the average number of 'chunks' of information (names, numbers, etc) that can be stored is 7, + or - 2. This means that if you scored between 5 and 9 of the words on the list, your short term memory is working at an average capacity, but you can improve it using a number of techniques which we'll explore later. Learn more about Miller's Magic Number ›
Learn More About How Your Memory Works
We have learnt a lot about how the human memory works over the 20th Century from the research that has been conducted by many psychologists:
Q. I remembered more words at the end of the list than towards the start. Why is this?
A. This phenomenon is due to what psychologists call the recency effect: we're more likely to remember something if it happened recently (in this case, if you read the words at the end of the list more recently than those at the start) than if it happened longer ago.
Q. What factors affect my memory's performance?
Many factors can affect your memory, including:
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