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In one minute, how many animals can you think of that start with the letter "S"?
0-2 10%  10%  [ 101 ]
0-2 10%  10%  [ 101 ]
3-5 21%  21%  [ 215 ]
3-5 21%  21%  [ 215 ]
6-8 13%  13%  [ 135 ]
6-8 13%  13%  [ 135 ]
9-11 4%  4%  [ 40 ]
9-11 4%  4%  [ 40 ]
11-15 3%  3%  [ 33 ]
11-15 3%  3%  [ 33 ]
Total votes : 1048

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12 Aug 2008, 11:59 am

14.

There are dinos with s? I only know T-REX. I always hated dinos as a kid (not anymore).


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12 Aug 2008, 3:42 pm

I just dont see this as an executive function test. Some aspies may even have animals as a special interest.


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12 Aug 2008, 3:47 pm

Snake, Sheep

All I could come up with :P



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12 Aug 2008, 4:04 pm

I have clinical executive dysfunction and this doesn't begin to measure executive dysfunction sorry. Although exercises like this are in it, it is vastly simplistic just to put one. The test I did lasted a good part of the day. It is only after extensive testing can you say that other things like dyslexia are unlikely. I say unlikely rather then ruled out altogether, because you just can't be that conclusive.

Executive is a huge area. It is the main hub of processing in the brain, the control centre.

One of the traits of executive dysfunction is you tend to get flagged on a whole load of other tests. For instance I scored very poorly on the face recognition test. But even the makers of that test admit that there are other reasons why you would score badly. In really My facial recognition is no where near as bad as the test suggests. The reason why I scored badly is almost certainly executive dysfunction.



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12 Aug 2008, 4:17 pm

snake
spider
stoat
snail


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12 Aug 2008, 5:08 pm

snake, serpent, snail, sheep, shellfish, starfish, spider



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12 Aug 2008, 6:25 pm

I got 4. How do you get officially tested for this? I read an article that said people with my dx have problems with this.


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13 Aug 2008, 3:45 pm

sea lion
snake
shrew
sheep
seal

I suck. :P



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13 Aug 2008, 5:25 pm

Seashell wrote:
shellfish


And I thought I was the first to get shellfish :P

Alas, that's the only one I could think of, but I already knew that my executive system was screwy.


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13 Aug 2008, 5:50 pm

sloth... snake... wait. does snake count? animal. animal. animal. um, a snake is an animal. but. snake. sloth. snake. crap it's been like 20 seconds already. snake, wait. does snake count? reptile but mammal but animal but bug but is a bug an animal? ok, SLOTH. SNAKE. snake. snake. does snake count? crap. i only have TWO!! well, prob only one. does snake count? ok. 40 seconds gone.... sloth, snake, um.... ok, what are all the animals i can think of? panda, bear, cat, jaguar, lion, crap none of those start with s.... (and so on)

yeah. i did really great with this excercise :oops:


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13 Aug 2008, 8:36 pm

hermit wrote:
Cade that sounds like me too... I first tried this on myself with "B" and got 5 in two minutes, just got stuck going 'bear bee bear bee... bear bear ben! Then I was thinking of "Ben" which was interesting b/c it's not quite right, but yeah anyway, I try to slip around it and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't...

I have to stop myself. Think "bear" and then I start thinking "bears live here, eat that, do this, etc"... going through the available information under 'bear'.

What are your other tricks? Do share please!


How old are you? There USE to be a series called "gentle ben". It was about gentle ben, who was a bear!



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13 Aug 2008, 8:52 pm

strange. I only came up with 3 in one minute.

Seal, Salamander, Sheep

What is executive function/dysfunction?



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14 Aug 2008, 9:54 am

snake
Slug
Starfish
Shark
Squid
Sheep
Scampi
Snail
Swift
Sparrow
Sparrowhawk
Shrimp
Scorpion
Spider

That's the 14 I got :)



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14 Aug 2008, 10:10 am

I got four:

Squirrel
Salamander
Sow
Squid

But I'm not sure if "Sow" would count. Really pathetic when I saw other lists an all the animals I forgot! I kept thinking "there seems like there's something in the sea that starts with "s", but dolphin dosen't. Hmm, neither does whale". And then my timer buzzed.

I supposedly don't have Executive Disfunction (although I guess some tests said I did when I was screened, so who knows).



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14 Aug 2008, 3:32 pm

I didn't do so well. For some reason I missed a lot of the obvious animals such as seal, swan, and shark.

I got...

snake
serpent
saber-tooth tiger
sloth
simian



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14 Aug 2008, 6:35 pm

I got three. i was thinking so hard that i start naming any animals just to try... lol