Memory testing

The three hours yesterday of memory testing at UCLA was interesting. One of the test is a list of 12 unrelated words. The tester reads you the complete list of the words and you are asked to repeat as many of them as you can and in any order. This is a daunting task. As you try to remember the first of the list you cannot remember the last of the list. The instructor continues to read all 12 of the words until you remember all of them. It is not easy. After about 20 minutes of other testing the tester brings out a 30 word list. In this 30 word lists are the 12 previous words in random order that had been memorized. As these words are read and you are to answer yes or no. It was easy for a me to do. This I believe is an Alzheimer’s type test. A person with the disease can know something and in about 20 minutes or 30 minutes can not remember it even with prompts. There were all kinds of tests, written, oral and visual. After the three hours of testing I was not physically or mentally tired, but it was a good workout.