Memorization type and Realization type

We are always living with a lot of failures every day, such as forgetting the wallet, ringing the
wrong phone number and going back to the wrong home after drinking wine. There are also things
that costs our life. In Japan, there are around 10 thousand people died in traffic accidents but mainly
because the driver has made a mistake. Reasons for aircraft accidents, accidents during work and
accidents at home are mainly human error. There were also accidents that mixing up the patient
that is going to receive an operation in hospitals. Why people always make mistakes? And how we
can avoid making mistakes?

After studying the carless mistakes made in daily life, psychologists have discovered that
there are usually two types – Memorization and Realization. People with memorization type usually
make mistakes by forgetting something while people with realization type usually realize that they
have made a mistake afterwards.

Let’s try to consider the result of the test in the previous page. Questions with odd number
are used to investigate whether it is the memorization type. If you agree with four or more
statements, then you are careless. If there are six or more statements that match you, then you are
considered very careless. It would be helpful for these people to have some ways to remember
prepared, such as always taking memos and looking at checklist while dosing tasks.

On the other hands, if you match with more than 3 statements with even number, it is
flurried person and if there are more than 5, the person will be a very flurried person. It would be
good if s/he can get used to habits such as take a deep breath before starting to work, pointing with
fingers before starting to operate.

For cases that both even and odd number statements are correct, it will become a person
that both careless and panic. But how about people that don’t really get many ticks for either side?
He or she might be a perfect man(聖人君子) or just a big liar, or, otherwise, maybe they are the
most annoying people who are not paying attention to their mistakes or have forgotten about them.