MEMORY
Definition: The ability to recall previously cognized material; it is the counter-part to cognition; the ability to “bring back” information.
Memory for:
- Figural Units (MFU)
- Symbolic Units-visual (MSUv)
- Symbolic Systems-visual (MSSv)
- Symbolic Units-auditory (MSUa)
- Symbolic Systems-auditory (MSSa)
- Symbolic Implications (MSI)
- seMantic Implications (MMI)
Academic Skill
- Memory for visual details
- Visual attending
- Visual sequencing
- Auditory attending
- Auditory sequencing
- Inferential memory
- seMantic and verbal memory
Curricular Area
- Reading & Language arts
- Reading readiness
- Reading readiness
- Arithmetic
- Arithmetic
- Mathematics
- Reading & Language arts
Strengths if ability is well-developed:
- Able to remember incidental information
- Good with visual details; memory for symbols
- Good memory for visual sets, series, and sequences
- Good with auditory details; memory for symbols
- Good memory for auditory sets, series, and sequences
- Able to hold information for symbolic reasoning
- Able to remember and draw implications
Consequences if ability is not well-developed:
- Weak in memory for details
- Difficulty with spelling; may lose visual concentration
- Will not be able to “hold” and process or sequence data.
- May have auditory discrimination problems
- Will not be able to “hold” information presented vocally
- Problems “holding” unconnected facts until implication found
- Difficulty seeing connections in reading material
Figural
MFU
The client is asked to remember which graphics he or she saw throughout the test.
The client is asked to remember which graphics he or she saw throughout the test.
seMantic
MMI (study section)
The client is asked to study names paired with occupations for 15 seconds then recall the information.
The client is asked to study names paired with occupations for 15 seconds then recall the information.
MMI (test section)
Symbolic
MSU Visual
The client is asked to remember and record a series of numbers that are shown to him or her while removing one number.
The client is asked to remember and record a series of numbers that are shown to him or her while removing one number.
MSU Auditory
The client is asked to remember and record a series of numbers that are read aloud to him or her while removing one number.
The client is asked to remember and record a series of numbers that are read aloud to him or her while removing one number.
