STUDY OF THE CORRELATIONS BETWEEN SELF-ES TIMATION OF MEMORY, A PSYCHOMETRIC TEST (SM9), AND A TEST OF MEMORY DAILY-LIFE EVENTS

Assessment of memory performance is now well established. However, the normal form of assessment does not evaluate memory problems encounter ed during daily activities, a situation relevant to the evaluation of drug effects on memory components. The present study examines the ecol ogical validity of psychometric tests. 49 individuals, from 20 to 89 y ears old without any identified pathology were included in the study, with the aim of establishing correlations between an autoquestionnaire of memory, a standard memory battery (SM9) and a daily memory video t est (DMV). No correlation was found between self-estimation and object ive tests or DMV. A strong correlation (r = 0.81) was found between SM 9 and DMV. Imaged information and verbal coding appear to be essential parameters of objective tests. These results confirm the ecological v alidity of the objective psychometric tests and in particular of SM9.