Executive Functioning and Verbal Memory test

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OddDuckNash99
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18 May 2011, 10:55 pm

Verbal memory: 93rd percentile (I think my score was 122.)
Executive function: 96th percentile (I think my score was 126.)
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I wasn't at all surprised by my memory score. As others have said, I "think in pictures," so I always excel at tests of this kind. If I saw the same picture in my mind as before, that was a word I saw. If I got a new image, I saw a completely new picture and felt surprised. I automatically "see" a picture whenever I read anything (I wasn't just doing this to remember the words), so it's an obvious advantage to many aspects of life.

As for the executive function part, I was surprised here, because I do have executive function problems, particularly when it comes to switching tasks. But this test really isn't an example of the executive function tasks one encounters in the real world. This test was all about reaction time and following rules, and I have gotten extremely high scores on official IQ tests when it comes to processing speed. So, when you look at the EF test that way, it makes sense that I did so well.

Wanted to add here that I'm 23 and a diagnosed Aspie.


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18 May 2011, 11:01 pm

Apple_in_my_Eye wrote:
Verbal Memory: 1th percentile/38 subject score/52 standard score
Executive Functioning: 1th percentile/11 subject score/57 standard score

Not officially dx'ed AS so take the data as you like.

Very tired today, and I have previous neuropysch testing with similar results (though not quite that low), so not too surprising. I think I remember taking that test a month or so ago and doing better on the verbal memory part.

The shifting attention test reminds me of the Stroop color-word test, in that it actually feels hard to do. Post-burnout that kind of thing has always seemed palpably harder.


Interesting - your verbal memory score is identical to mine (and you're only one year older than I am). Do you think that relates to your burnout?

I know we've both talked about burnout, and we both scored similarly on this test. Just kind of interesting.



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18 May 2011, 11:03 pm

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

swbluto feels that the tests aren't normed to age, but from past iterations of posting this test, I suspect it is. It's hard to say either way because hardly anyone posts all the relevant data.



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18 May 2011, 11:06 pm

Verbal Memory - 90th percentile
Executive Functioning - 27th percentile

I am a confirmed Aspie.

(I also thought I did REALLY well on the executive functioning test, and while I had only two errors, my timing was REALLY slow compared to the average. LOL)

I'm 38.

Sorry, I closed it out before I wrote down the other specifics of the scores. :(


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18 May 2011, 11:08 pm

Here's my result. I don't really know or understand what this means, though!

[img][800:509]http://i53.tinypic.com/1zy96ap.png[/img]



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18 May 2011, 11:09 pm

RaquiGirl wrote:
Verbal Memory - 90th percentile
Executive Functioning - 27th percentile

I am a confirmed Aspie.

(I also thought I did REALLY well on the executive functioning test, and while I had only two errors, my timing was REALLY slow compared to the average. LOL)

I'm 38.

Sorry, I closed it out before I wrote down the other specifics of the scores. :(


It's cool. That you scored 89 percentiles above Apple_in_my_eye and myself on verbal and are 3-4 years younger than the two of us suggests that perhaps the test is not quite so flat and that there may be norming going on.



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18 May 2011, 11:14 pm

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.

Agreed. :wink:

Age: 29
Subject Score * Standard Score * Percentile
Verbal: 58 .................. 118 ........................... 88
Exec: 36 ......................78 .............................. 7


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18 May 2011, 11:15 pm

Verdandi wrote:
swbluto feels that the tests aren't normed to age, but from past iterations of posting this test, I suspect it is. It's hard to say either way because hardly anyone posts all the relevant data.


Good call. I was basing my inference on the noticeable discrepancy in verbal memory scores between known "older testers" and "younger testers" on the limited amount of data I had back on the first page, but standardized score data would be much more indicative.

However, if they're using a score-adjustment formula and not a normed population, it might be errant and who knows what the error percentage might be -- it's quite possible that the standard deviation that they calculated could be far off from it should be and there might be an overabundance of abnormally high or low scores in the general population.

Here are my results:
[img][800:393]http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l214/swbluto/tesresult.jpg[/img]

And comparing my raw scores with Dirty_Diamond's raw scores suggests that it is normed based on age. Our percentiles are different where our raw scores are equivalent.



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18 May 2011, 11:19 pm

Verbal Memory: 92nd Percentile

Shifting Attention: 4th Percentile

I thought I did well on the shifting attention test, until I got the result.

I found the verbal memory test much easy than the shifting attention test.

I'm 16 and have PDD-NOS.



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18 May 2011, 11:19 pm

swbluto wrote:
Verdandi wrote:
swbluto feels that the tests aren't normed to age, but from past iterations of posting this test, I suspect it is. It's hard to say either way because hardly anyone posts all the relevant data.


Good call. I was basing my inference on the noticeable discrepancy in verbal memory scores between known "older testers" and "younger testers" on the limited amount of data I had back on the first page, but standardized score data would be much more indicative.

However, if they're using a score-adjustment formula and not a normed population, it might be errant and who knows what the error percentage might be -- it's quite possible that the standard deviation that they calculated could be far off from it should be and there might be an overabundance of abnormally high or low scores in the general population.


All good points. They don't seem to publish the methods used.

I wish someone your age would score the same as I did, just to get a good comparison.



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18 May 2011, 11:24 pm

I'm 20 years old and diagnosed with AS.

Verbal Memory: 66th percentile
Executive Function: 5th percentile



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18 May 2011, 11:29 pm

Verdandi wrote:
It's cool. That you scored 89 percentiles above Apple_in_my_eye and myself on verbal and are 3-4 years younger than the two of us suggests that perhaps the test is not quite so flat and that there may be norming going on.


Don't really know what you meant by that, but if it makes a difference, words and symbols/pictures are my thing, not math, music or patterns. :D Temple Grandin described autistics as being divided into three types: visual, music/math, verbal logic. I guess I'm verbal logic first, maybe with a bit of visual... but I am horrid at music/math stuff. LOL

Edit: Also wanted to mention that while others see pictures associated with the words, I see the word itself as a picture. I don't even read the word as much as I just "see" the word and recognize if I've seen it before. It's the same as symbols for me... I scored really high on a part of my AS Dx testing that showed me symbols, told me what words they were supposed to represent and had me read a string of symbols as if it were English. My delayed processing for this was just as good as the immediate too. It's what makes it easy for me to remember facts and record memories like movies, but I don't remember things I haven't actually seen as well, like most primarily visual thinkers do. I always tell people I have a partial photographic memory to explain why I'm such a freak about remembering things so precisely... otherwise I get funny looks. LOL


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18 May 2011, 11:30 pm

Verdandi wrote:
Apple_in_my_Eye wrote:
Verbal Memory: 1th percentile/38 subject score/52 standard score
Executive Functioning: 1th percentile/11 subject score/57 standard score

Not officially dx'ed AS so take the data as you like.

Very tired today, and I have previous neuropysch testing with similar results (though not quite that low), so not too surprising. I think I remember taking that test a month or so ago and doing better on the verbal memory part.

The shifting attention test reminds me of the Stroop color-word test, in that it actually feels hard to do. Post-burnout that kind of thing has always seemed palpably harder.


Interesting - your verbal memory score is identical to mine (and you're only one year older than I am). Do you think that relates to your burnout?

I know we've both talked about burnout, and we both scored similarly on this test. Just kind of interesting.

I think so. Prior to BO I could write & debug computer code pretty easily, and now I can't really do it at all. And the problem always seemed to be that information was slipping out of my short-term memory (or becoming fuzzy or corrupted) much more than before. And when reading how I forget the parts I've read minutes before, which also makes it seem like it's a verbal short-term memory problem.

(I'd give a lot to know what on Earth burnout is on a physical level. Lately I've been looking up the effects of stress-induced damage to the hippocampus, which does fit in various ways, but with no real research about burnout there's no way to know if that is really what it is or not.)



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18 May 2011, 11:37 pm

wow...I knew my EF skills were bad...I had no idea how bad
I scored -8 in the 1 percentile only cause they dont have percentiles in the negitive range.

Gee no wonder I cant seem to get anything done. I am freakin crippled by my EFD. This is depressing.

as far as the verbal test goes pretty bad once again...2nd percentile


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18 May 2011, 11:38 pm

Does anyone know of any good "NT" like forums where people are into testing themselves psychologically and willing to divulge their scores?

Like, maybe...

Psychology forums?
Those "INTP" forums or other Myer-Brigg forums?

I need another forum to try these psychological tests on to ensure a relatively adequate NT group for comparison.

[Cool, it seems Personality Cafe is popular enough and has the right "atmosphere" for testing. Maybe this is "the site" I've been looking for?]



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18 May 2011, 11:43 pm

Verbal Memory 51 - 32%

Executive Functioning 46 -32%


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