There are very few people who can be proud of their excellent memory. And it also worsens with age and with some diseases. But there are certain methods and techniques that allow you to save and even develop memory. There are a lot of them, and everyone can choose from this complex what suits him best.
Memory and attention: communicating vessels
Specialists distinguish three types of memory: visual, auditory, motor. The first two are responsible for processing, storage and reproduction of information coming through the organs of vision and hearing. Motor allows you to remember actions, movements, and automatically. So the baby takes the first steps and acquires walking skills, and then unconsciously uses them all his life. The maximum effect is achieved when all these types are involved. For example, when memorizing a rule or a poetic stanza, it’s nice to write this text and pronounce it aloud.
What is best remembered is that which is interesting, or at least that draws attention. And attention is not so difficult to develop, and you can do it in an exciting game along with other family members. For example, collecting puzzles, looking at pictures from the series: “Find 10 differences”, simply competing in remembering some interior details, landscape, etc.
Shelf and find associations
Another effective trick: to analyze, break up information into parts and remember the logical "pieces". It was not for nothing that teachers in the school exhausted their students with tasks of dividing texts into parts, inventing headings - this really works, especially if logic is also involved.
Say, having understood what electromagnetic induction is, then, in an exam, a student can completely forget the text of a paragraph, but if he understands the essence of the described phenomenon, he will still tell about it in his own words.
Teaching foreign languages, history, literature is often based on the method of association. Different eras, rulers, poets are compared, words that are similar in sound and meaning in different languages are searched for, etc. So in everyday life, if you need to remember, for example, someone’s name, you should connect it with people we already know: they’re called her, like the neighbor from the 3rd floor, who always grumbles
.Repetition and self-organization
Try to memorize numbers, terms, addresses, phones by repeated repetition. You can imagine at the moment of repetition how you write it down. The number of the apartment is “draw” on an imaginary door, then this image will help to recreate the figure “attached” to it.
Systematization is important not only at school or university. In any work, even in everyday life, it will be of great help. Those who keep diaries better remember the events of their lives, without even rereading what was written. Diaries help to plan and memorize obligations for the coming day.