In childhood, our memory works amazingly: poems and school material are well remembered. Over time, the amount of information increases, and jokes about sclerosis are increasingly heard. The cause of memory impairment is stress, stress, a large amount of unfiltered information. But you shouldn't get upset about it. We have prepared memory development exercises to help you put mental processes in order, to improve concentration and attentiveness.
Memory processes. What helps to remember better
What do we know about memory? This is a brain function, which is characterized by such processes:
- perception and memorization;
- storage;
- recognition;
- reproduction;
- memory;
- forgetting information.
Factors that have a positive effect on memorization:
- good sleep, sobriety of thinking, healthy lifestyle;
- emotionality of the event;
- positive thinking;
- attentiveness and concentration;
- the desire to remember.
To improve memory, scientists are developing various techniques, including exercises for memory, training, techniques, and also tell the secrets of the work of the whole mechanism, memorization techniques.
Exercises for the development of memory
In the animal world
For this kind of training, you will need pictures of random animals. You need to carefully consider the pictures within a minute, and then write down the names of the animals in alphabetical order.
Memorizing important dates
Memorizing unfamiliar dates will help develop memory, and further simplify the memorization of important events. It is necessary to remember the dates and events associated with them for a minute, and then reproduce them. For example:
- Katerina and Maxim were married on February 24, 1993
- Svetlana was born on August 7, 1998.
- Ruslan defended his term paper May 20, 2015
- Mayor of the city established a new monument on November 4, 2004
- Elizabeth's parents bought a house on December 28, 1987
- Polish artist Francis Smuglevich was born on October 6, 1745
A similar technique can be used when memorizing the names and dates of birth of famous personalities. This will help not only to improve memory, but to expand the horizons, learn something new.
- Ludwig van Beethoven 1770
- Salvador Dali 1904
- Bill Gates 1955
- Charlie Chaplin 1889
- Leonardo da Vinci 1452
To complicate the task of the date, the names can be mixed, restoring them from memory.
Decryption Mastery
Such exercises for the development of memory in adults will cause difficulty, let alone children. The task will not be hard for everyone, but constant training will ensure success. The system consists in memorizing letters and corresponding symbols. After memorizing, you need to try to decipher the words from memory.
Table to remember
| • | ♂ | ♪ | ♫ | ☼ | ► | ↕ | § | ▬ | " | # | $ | & | ♠ | @ |
| BUT | B | R | E | AND | TO | L | M | H | ABOUT | P | R | WITH | T | F |
Encrypted words
| ► | " | ► | " | & |
| • | ♂ | " | ▬ | ♫ | § | ♫ | ▬ | ♠ |
| ♪ | ☼ | # | ♫ | $ | ♂ | " | ↕ | • |
Memorization of words
Such exercises for the development of memory are not only in the role of training, but are often found at inspections in schools or kindergartens. They are set up for the most possible memorization of unrelated words and their further reproduction from memory.
For example: friend, sea, clothes, product, everyone, nightlight, mushroom, jacket, coconut, space, accident, meteorite, suede, vegetation, elephant, moisture.
Memorization of objects
Such exercises can be done anywhere, anytime. For this you need to remember one or more items. They need to be carefully considered, focusing on the details. Then try to reproduce from memory in the smallest details. For example, it will be a mug. Asking yourself questions you need to accurately describe the item: What color is it? Size? What is shown on it? What shape is a pen? Are there any chips? What is the surface? Gradually, you can choose items with a large number of elements, thereby complicating the workout.
Mapping
This technique is extremely interesting and unusual. To do this, choose a new route for yourself, for example, from home to work. Walk it on foot with the memorization of all outstanding objects, signs, buildings. On arrival home it is worth drawing a route map, marking on it as much as possible details.
Stroop test
Exercises for memory by the method of the American psychologist John Stroop are focused on the concentration of attention and intensive work of the brain. The test is built on the Stroop effect, which is a contradiction between the read and the seen information. It is necessary to name the colors of words, without uttering the words themselves. The faster and more correct the answer, the more effective the method works.
RED BLUE YELLOW BLACK GREEN GREEN BLUE RED YELLOW YELLOW BLUE BLACK RED BROWN GREEN YELLOW BLUE
Exercises for memory training in children
Sometimes lengthy and incomprehensible workouts cause their unwillingness to go through them; they can be difficult and incomprehensible for children. For this, the techniques of memory development, which are performed in a game form, were created. Such memory games can be found in almost any online simulator or application. Find each of the games will be easy. To do this, enter the name in the browser search box. This technique will be interesting to children and adults.
Game "Two cards back"
The essence of the game is to memorize the numbers that appear on the cards. After a few seconds, the numbers disappear and new ones appear. The goal is to compare the current map with the previous one and to answer whether they are the same. As the level rises, the number of cards increases, they start to disappear faster.
Game "Memory Matrix"
This game can also be called "Memory Mosaic". It is a square, divided into sections. Initial levels offer 3 * 3, 5 * 5 squares and the like. In the squares, the cubes randomly light up and immediately disappear. The task is to remember and restore. A sophisticated version of this training is to move the squares after the disappearance.
"Letter coverage"
This technique is tuned for attentiveness and speed of memorization. It is a set of letters that you need to remember and restore. Letters are written in a random order, for the difficulty of memorizing, for example, CIRCLE, SQUIKVER, TRKRYVNTS, ZDBRNUT and the like. In this example, you can memorize a sequence of figures or numbers.
"Whirlwind of icons"
This game has many names, but the concept is the same: icons appear on the screen with the image, disappear and appear with the addition of one. The purpose of the task is to point to a new icon. With each correct answer, the speed increases.
Summing up
Researches of scientists assert that the processes of memory can improve up to 25 years and stay at the same level up to 40 years, after 50 it is characterized by concentration and sensitivity. After such a statement, we can conclude that the work on his memory in his youth will provide a good level of memorization in later life. This will definitely simplify it and make it bright, rich.
Additional resources
If training takes a lot of time, inconvenient or not interesting, there are several other ways:
- Courses. For those who are very determined to master the best memory upgrade techniques, there are many online courses from “Developing Memory and Attention in Children”, ending with “Super Memory in 30 Days” express courses.
- Webinars. Many are willing to share their knowledge, sometimes even for free. To do this, they create entire video discussions in real time. Not everyone knows about online webinars, but you can hear a lot of useful things in them.
- games and apps. In the age of advanced technologies, a large number of applications for smartphones have been created that are aimed at developing memory. Exercises here are selected successfully and painted in blocks. A big plus of such exercises is that they can be used anywhere, anytime. Something similar can be found on the PC or online versions.
Memory can and should be improved. This will help exercises for the development of memory, techniques and games described in this article. Do not forget about proper nutrition, healthy lifestyle, positive thinking and regular exercise. Work on yourself is the path to success.
