Changes

=== Cognitive Health ===

=== Cognitive Health ===

Everyone should track their cognitive ability as much as health-conscious people track their heartrate and exercise. IQ tests are supposed to have high 'reliability' and not change much between days for any individual. [[Quantified Mind|Formal cognitive testing]] takes too much time and effect on daily life of the specific thing the cognitive test tests is often questioned. Skill trainers and testers like typing tutors have none of the mentioned problems. However, even if a skill test is useful for optimizing the skill, things like dependence on psychological factors may not make it a good cognitive test. The skill test will have to correlate with validated cognitive tests or obviously important health things or at least transfer to other tests to become validated<ref>[[wikipedia:Validity_(statistics)|en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_(statistics)]]</ref> as a cognitive or health test. The tests are unlikely to be pure in the sense of [[Quantified Mind]]' science page. This makes them better checks for general unhealth but harder to diagnose a specific problem with. The skill of memorizing from flashcards may be trainable. It may even transfer to memory in general.       

Everyone should track their cognitive ability as much as health-conscious people track their heartrate and exercise. IQ tests are supposed to have high 'reliability' and not change much between days for any individual. [[Quantified Mind|Formal cognitive testing]] takes too much time and effect on daily life of the specific thing the cognitive test tests is often questioned. Skill trainers and testers like typing tutors have none of the mentioned problems. However, even if a skill test is useful for optimizing the skill, things like dependence on psychological factors may not make it a good cognitive test. The skill test will have to correlate with validated cognitive tests or obviously important health things or at least transfer to other tests to become validated<ref>[[wikipedia:Validity_(statistics)|en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_(statistics)]]</ref> as a cognitive or health test. The tests are unlikely to be pure in the sense of [[Quantified Mind]]' science page. This makes them better checks for general unhealth but harder to diagnose a specific problem with. The skill of memorizing from flashcards may be trainable. It may even transfer to memory in general.       

Many elements of important theory of memory should be reproducible in this project even if the specific tests do not match exactly.<ref>Bjork, R. A., & Bjork, E. L. (1992). A new theory of disuse and an old theory of stimulus fluctuation. In A. F. Healy, S. M. Kosslyn, & R. M. Shiffrin (Eds.), ''Essays in honor of William K. Estes, Vol. 1. From learning theory to connectionist theory; Vol. 2. From learning processes to cognitive processes'' (pp. 35–67). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.</ref> Most of the tests in the cited paper tested if item seen before (recogntion) not if response was remembered with the help of a cue (cued recall).<ref>techpsych.wordpress.ncsu.edu/2020/03/18/hello-world/</ref> In the scientific papers the delay of the recall is usualy small relative to spaced retrieval, and it is never performed continuously or longitudinally. Hopefully, the tests transfer to cognitive concept of memory and be important in everyday functioning.         

Many elements of important theory of memory should be reproducible in this project even if the specific tests do not match exactly.<ref>Bjork, R. A., & Bjork, E. L. (1992). A new theory of disuse and an old theory of stimulus fluctuation. In A. F. Healy, S. M. Kosslyn, & R. M. Shiffrin (Eds.), ''Essays in honor of William K. Estes, Vol. 1. From learning theory to connectionist theory; Vol. 2. From learning processes to cognitive processes'' (pp. 35–67). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.</ref> Most of the tests in the cited paper tested if item seen before (recogntion) not if response was remembered with the help of a cue (cued recall).<ref>techpsych.wordpress.ncsu.edu/2020/03/18/hello-world/</ref> In the scientific papers the delay of the recall is usualy small relative to spaced retrieval, and it is never performed continuously or longitudinally. Hopefully, the tests transfer to cognitive concept of memory and be important in everyday functioning.         

Remembering on a given day. If long-term then "retention". Wozniak explains it better but I would say that this should be separated in to real forgetting that changes state for several reviews or just momentary lapse. Both are measured separately making two tests. There are also more mild state of card consolidation changes that may happen that are not just forgetting. This may be a third test.  

Remembering on a given day. If long-term then "retention". Wozniak explains it better but I would say that this should be separated in to real forgetting that changes state for several reviews or just momentary lapse. Both are measured separately making two tests. There are also more mild state of card consolidation changes that may happen that are not just forgetting. This may be a third test.  

Long delay cued recall (or CVLT?) declines with age but improves with testing (testing effect on specific memory or the general skill?).<ref>Longitudinal changes in verbal memory in older adults

Long delay cued recall (or CVLT?) declines with age but improves with testing (testing effect on specific memory or the general skill?).<ref>Longitudinal changes in verbal memory in older adults