Executive Functioning and Verbal Memory test

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20 May 2011, 1:23 am

Kon: The only exception is "a preference for written communication (e.g. text chat)". I really don't like when I'm unable to correct my faulty communication immediately.

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20 May 2011, 1:52 am

One thought to the executive test. Speed vs. errors. The trade off between the two is depends on the person's decision to some extent, while the scoring might be differently rewarding.

On the verbal memory test. Short time memory can last longer than a one or two minutes.

Overall, these tests seem a little too simplistic, I'm looking forward to see the new tests, raised my appetite (thanks, swbluto, for your efforts).

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20 May 2011, 5:55 am

Age 46

verbal 55 @ 73%

shifting 53 @ 75%

I think I did OK on this executive test due to 'working memory,' or lack thereof, of tapping into this.

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20 May 2011, 6:08 am

Verbal Memory 95th percentile
Executive Functioning 68th percentile

I think I've done this test before.

The way I did the verbal memory test was to create a story with the words, linking them all together into a narrative.

I'm not sure the result of my executive functioning test would transfer into real life situations, nor be sustainable for periods longer than a couple of minutes.

Verdandi wrote:

What would be interesting is if people posted their subject scores, standard scores, age (as specific or vague as they like), and percentile.

Age: 31

--------Subject Score * Standard Score * Percentile
Verbal: 60 ------------- 125 -------------- 95 -------
E x e c: 54 ------------- 107 -------------- 68 -------

Edit: Found my old test

Verbal Memory Percentile 79
Executive Functioning Percentile 32

Seems I improved since then.

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20 May 2011, 6:42 am

Verbal Memory: 40
Executive Functioning: 14

What is this supposed to mean?

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20 May 2011, 4:58 pm

Kon wrote:

swbluto wrote:

I just culled the verbal scores for the "older testers" and here's what the results are:

Official AS (name - estimated_age; verbal_memory_score)
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wavefreak - 50; 1
verdandia - 40; 1
kon - 60; 1
apple_in_my_eye - 42; 1
raquiGirl - 38; 90

Unknown
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ojani - 38; 32
Rhiannon0828 - 42; 79

Does anybody relate to these?

-have trouble paying attention to and remembering information presented orally, and may cope better with visually acquired information
-have problems carrying out multi-step directions given orally; need to hear only one direction at a time
-have poor listening skills
-need more time to process information
-disliking locations with background noise such as bar, clubs or other social locations
-a preference for written communication (e.g. text chat)
-having trouble paying attention and remembering information when information is simultaneously presented in multiple modalities

P.S. I'm still in my 40s. I wish I was in my 60s as I'm looking forward to retirement.

- YES TO ALL OF THE ABOVE!! !

- I find it very hard to process the group dynamics in conversations, and I do much better with other people when it's 1-on-1 up to 1-on-4. Anything more and I get confused quite quickly.

Verbal memory: 88%
Executive functioning: 87%

- My executive functioning and verbal memory looks high in the results, but I still have all the issues that you mentioned above.

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20 May 2011, 5:54 pm

If they did the memory test and used pictures instead of words I think I would do significantly better. I've always been a very visual person.

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20 May 2011, 6:04 pm

Kon wrote:

If they did the memory test and used pictures instead of words I think I would do significantly better. I've always been a very visual person.

Yeah, same with me.

I don't really translate words into pictures fast enough to remember the words visually, I guess, as others described doing that and it didn't work for me.

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21 May 2011, 10:23 pm

Verbal Memory- 42nd percentile
Executive Functioning- 7th percentile.

Ughh.

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21 May 2011, 11:12 pm

Verdandi wrote:

I don't really translate words into pictures fast enough to remember the words visually, I guess, as others described doing that and it didn't work for me.

I wonder if that's the reason why verbal communication is daunting for me. It feels like a chore. Listening, translating, interpretating and responding seems to require a lot longer for me than most people especially with new people I've never met. That lack of familiarity of voice makes the process last even longer.

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21 May 2011, 11:18 pm

Kon wrote:

Verdandi wrote:

I don't really translate words into pictures fast enough to remember the words visually, I guess, as others described doing that and it didn't work for me.

Yes, this sounds familiar to me. I mean, from the moment I discovered text communication (BBSes) I was hooked and found them so much easier due to the lack of real time synchronous communication.

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21 May 2011, 11:39 pm

Verbal Memory - 66th Percentile
Executive Functioning - 18th Percentile

I have long suspected that I have Executive Dysfunction, and this almost confirms it. The shifting attention part was pretty difficult; 3 times I couldn't "shift my attention" at all, and it skipped to the next one. It took me awhile to figure out all the other ones. My "Correct Reaction Time" was 1394, in the 1st Percentile, which, if I understand that correctly, was extremely slow...

I took a similar test to the shifting attention a month or so ago, where it showed a picture of something and a word, and sometimes you had to answer "true", as in the word and the picture of the object matched, and sometimes it would tell you to pick "true" if they did not match (and vice versa; "false" if they do match and so on), and that was difficult for me too. It was hard shifting my attention between whether I was supposed to give the correct answer or the wrong answer, and I had to stop and think for a bit in order to do it.

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08 Feb 2012, 2:16 pm

Verbal Memory: 23rd percentile
Executive Function: 1st percentile

Ouch!

The executive function test made me incredibly nauseous, btw. Did anyone else experience that? I started off strong, but then I just became completely overwhelmed and stopped hitting any answers for a couple of seconds...felt really sick.

I played a game called 'Scattergories' with my friends last night. I was excited to play, because I like listing things, but I was not prepared for how poorly I would do at it. You are assigned a letter and then have three minutes to look at a list of terms (male name, tool, animal, etc) and to list something related to that term that begins with the assigned number. I spent most of the game just sitting and staring at the terms, trying to think of something...one round the letter was 'H' and for the category 'tool' I couldn't think of a hammer! :oops:

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08 Feb 2012, 5:43 pm

Another test I haven't tried before - I think I'm turning into a testaholic

Verbal memory 8%, Executive functioning 23% and slow (reaction time 7%). That sounds about right for me. My short term memory is rubbish and I do have a noticeable delay in processing data.

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08 Feb 2012, 5:59 pm

fragileclover wrote:

Yeah. Not "incredibly," but I had a definite sea-sick feeling when trying to figure out which button to push. I found that task-switching test almost physically difficult. I have some pre-existing balance issues, though.

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08 Feb 2012, 5:59 pm

Verbal Memory: 93 percentile
Executive Function: 75 percentile

I did not pay much attention to the words flashed up for verbal memory. I remembered the words as pictures that are not pictures of the things but the shapes of the letters and scored well. I took this test a few months ago, and that time, I remembered the words as spoken sounds and scored much lower on verbal memory.

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