Wow, I’m appalled by how much I’ve become dependant on external supports: the first time I took the remember-nonsense-words and the remember-digit-sequences tests, I instinctively wanted to reach for my pencil (because that’s what I would do ‘in real life’ to remember a sequence of digits or similar), and I felt that having to tell my hand not to do that was quite distracting.
Wow, I’m appalled by how much I’ve become dependant on external supports: the first time I took the remember-nonsense-words and the remember-digit-sequences tests, I instinctively wanted to reach for my pencil (because that’s what I would do ‘in real life’ to remember a sequence of digits or similar), and I felt that having to tell my hand not to do that was quite distracting.