If I heard it twice‚ I could remember 12 items from a friend’s grocery list of 12 items‚ without taking any list with me to the store.
No Yes 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
If I heard it twice‚ I could remember 10 items from a friend’s grocery list of 12 items‚ without taking any list with me to the store.
No Yes 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
If I heard it twice‚ I could remember 8 items from a friend’s grocery list of 12 items‚ without taking any list with me to the store.
No Yes 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
If I heard it twice‚ I could remember 5 items from a friend’s grocery list of 12 items‚ without taking any list with me to the store.
No Yes 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
If I heard it twice‚ I could remember 2 items from a friend’s grocery list of 12 items‚ without taking any list with me to the store.
No Yes 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Phone
If I looked up 3 phone numbers in the phone book at the same time‚ I could remember the first 3 digits of one phone number.
No Yes 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Picture
If someone showed me the pictures of 16 common everyday objects‚ 1 could look at the pictures once and remember the names of 2 of the objects.
No Yes 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Location
If I had just placed 10 items in different locations in a room‚ I could remember where I had put 2 of the items.
No Yes 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Word
If someone read the list to me twice‚ I could remember the names of 2 common objects from a list of 12 names.
No Yes 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Digit
If I carefully studied 20 numbers printed in a series on a piece of paper‚ I could remember 3 numbers in a row.
No Yes 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Map
If a friend gave me the directions to his or her new house‚ and the directions involved 10 steps‚ a few minutes later I could draw part of the route to the house on a map‚ using the first 2 steps in the directions.
No Yes 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Errands
If a friend asked me to do 10 errands‚ 5 minutes later I could remember 2 of the errands I had to do.
No Yes 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Photographs
If someone showed me the photographs of 10 people and told me their names once‚ I could identify 2 persons by name if I saw the pictures again a few minutes later.
No Yes 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Maze
If I had to find the way through a maze (on paper) on my first try‚ and the directions had 10 steps in them‚ I could find the way through part of the maze using the first 2 steps in the directions.
No Yes 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Received April 26‚ 1988
Revision received January 9‚ 1989
Accepted February 6‚ 1989
Jane M. Berry
Institute of Personality Assessment and Research
University of California‚ Berkeley
Robin L. West and Dierdre M. Dennehey
University of Florida
Developmental Psychology
1989‚ Vol. 25‚ No. 5.701-713