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Bed, lamp, rug

Step 2 Fork, plate, glass, table
Now read out these words, one line at a time. Spider, tree, bird, flower, dog
Cover up the line and try to repeat the words.
Pencil, scissors, chair, book, fish, clock
Continue down the list until your memory fails.
Pond, moon, star, grass, worm, bike, stone
Most people are better at remembering
Drum, bell, ball, racket, rope, box, net, pole
words than numbers. If you can repeat a string
of eight words you have done very well. Eye, leg, arm, foot, head, ear, toe, hair, nose
Bread, milk, cookie, plate, bowl, plum, spoon,
apple, banana, orange

Recognition vs. recall An artistic eye
This game clearly shows you the Do you have a good memory
difference between recognizing for remembering visual detail?
and recalling information. Try this test and see.

Step 1
First test your recognition Step 1
skills. Below are ten Look at the picture right
countries and ten capital and closely study it for
cities. In 30 seconds, see how two minutes. You may find
many you can match up and it helpful to draw it. Then
then turn to page 186 to cover up the picture and try
check your answers. to draw it from memory.
When you think you’ve
COUNTRIES CAPITALS finished, compare your
CAPITALS
Israel New Delhi drawing to the picture and
France Ottowa give yourself a point for
India Berlin every line you got right.
Russia Prague
Czech Republic Copenhagen
Germany Jerusalem
Afghanistan Buenos Aires
Canada Kabul
Denmark Paris
Argentina Moscow
Step 2
Now do the same with this
Step 2 picture, left, but this time
Here are another ten countries, but this time you need to look for familiar shapes
try to recall their capital cities in 30 seconds. Check your or patterns. For example,
answers again and then compare your two scores. does it look like a kite?
Again, after two minutes
Spain cover up the picture and
Ireland try to draw it. Figure out
China your score again and
Sweden compare it with the
Iraq previous one.
Netherlands
s
Japan
Italy
Egypt
Greece
You probably did better in the second
ti
Most people get a better score for recognition than
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h
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recall. This is because having a list of possible answers test than the first because associating the
gives your brain a shortcut to finding the information lines with familiar shapes makes them
stored in your memory. easier to remember.
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