What is the best way to remember information: a description of effective techniques and methods

Memory - This is an amazing tool of consciousness, without which it is impossible to imagine the development of either a single individual or human society as a whole. Observations show that good memory is one of those qualities that serve as the basis for personal growth and successful advancement in life. PWe will discuss how to improve this tool.

Memory is a complex mental process and includes four stages:

• memorization;
• storage;
• reproduction;
• forgetting.

Specialists in the field of psychology and medicine noted that memory has one feature: if it is not used for its intended purpose and not developed, it loses its properties over time. This provokes the onset of other destructive processes that may affect the cognitive and mental functions of consciousness.

The problem of remembering a large amount of information in different situations is faced by all people, but its strengthening inevitably comes with age. With the proper development of human consciousness, memory progresses to 25 years, in middle age it is kept at the same level, and in the elderly it gradually worsens.

In order to avoid the negative consequences of the process of memory impairment, it is necessary to train it in the likeness of muscle training. The essence of training is simple - it is necessary to involve more and more memory in work. For this, a large number of different methods and mnemonics have been invented.Before embarking on their development, you should find out what kind of memory happens, and also what the principle of memorization is. Memory is arbitrary and involuntary.

1. Random memorization occurs with the participation of the human will when it is necessary to assimilate information, and for this it takes effort. Arbitrary memory, in turn, is divided into mechanical (memorization by heart) and logical (meaningful).
2. Involuntary memory works without the participation of the will of man. Information is written into consciousness on its own. This usually happens under the influence of a strong impression and great interest. Interesting, necessary and important information is remembered by a person by itself, and without any special effort.

For information to be stored in memory for a long time or even forever, it must be analyzed, compared, examined from different points of view, critical perception and processing. This means that quick and arbitrary memorization is only possible when thinking and logic are connected.

In addition, memory can be divided into 3 types, depending on the prevailing type of perception of information.

• Visual (visual). Information is remembered primarily through vision, observation, and viewing.
• Auditory (auditory). Information is best absorbed by ear (through listening).
• Tactile (kinesthetic). A person in whom this kind of memory predominates best remembers information through touch.
• Olfactory and taste. They are much less common in the form of the types of memory that prevail in a person. Memorization through smells and tastes is more likely to play a secondary role. In some professions, these types of memory play the main role, for example, a cook or perfumer. Therefore, these types of perception of information also lend themselves well to training and are successfully developing.

To understand what kind of information perception prevails in a person, various tests are carried out. This is done to achieve the greatest results when you need to remember a large amount of information. For example, if a student knows that he is an audio, then preparing for the exam, he either reads the information out loud or listens to audio recordings of lectures. In the case when he is a visual, then the text read to himself will be well remembered to him only when he can present it in the form of specific visual images. But kinesthetics for effective memorization need to prescribe texts, since it is in the process of writing that information is written into consciousness.

Each of us sometimes faces the need to remember a large amount of important information. For example, schoolchildren and students before exams. Or people who recently got a new job. They need an extraordinary memory when reading and mastering all the documentation and information necessary for entering a post. Of course, everyone wants to remember the information better and at the same time correctly, preferably the first time. Let's see what techniques contribute to the fulfillment of such desires.

1. First of all, you need to decide what this information is for. If a person realizes that it is important and significant, then he usually sets a goal to remember it under any circumstances. When you fully understand the need to master this or that information, the problem of a large volume and short terms disappears automatically.This attitude to work on memorization comes quickly and painlessly, while additional capabilities and reserves are activated.
2. Allocate the right time to absorb information. Practice shows that there is the most favorable time for memorization. This is 1-2 hours in the morning after waking up, as well as 1-2 hours in the evening before bedtime. During the day, when many streams of various information are directed into our consciousness, the process of remembering a large volume of something specific goes more complicated.
3. Get a gist of. As mentioned above, only information that is perceived meaningfully, and not just memorized, is stored faster and better.
4. Focus on the most vivid and interesting episodes memorized information, at amazing, impressive, practically useful points.
5. It is thesis to write out the most important thing from the text in a certain sequence. Memorizing information the first time is often a difficult process, so you can rely on a plan hint when rehearsing the learned information.
6. Discuss, transmit and speak aloud information. Try to tell and explain a topic that you are learning yourself to someone else. Find a listener and imagine that you are a teacher or teacher. During the oral transmission of the studied information, the process of memorization is better and easier. And when the interlocutor asks questions, this is of even greater benefit, the brain activates its work and begins to seek answers not in memorized memorized entries, but using its own logic. If there is no one who wants to listen to you, speak the material aloud to the imaginary listener.
7. For better memorization of information, it is necessary not only to re-read it again, but to try to remember only by peeping in the notes.

There are many different systems and techniques for improving memory that will help you learn how to easily master large amounts of information and keep them in your mind for a long time. We give some examples and describe the schemes of the most effective of them.

Cicero’s memory training is performed in a rather unusual way. It is based on work with abstract imagination. We can all calmly and effortlessly imagine, for example, the familiar surroundings of our home or place of work, objects on the road and street that we often walk along. This information is written into our consciousness involuntarily. We can only use it to build strong associative ties. That is, the information that we need to remember, we "place" in a certain sequence for objects that are familiar to us.

The simplest and most clear example. You have to buy products in the store. Let's say there are 10 items of goods. Mentally lay them clockwise on 10 different kitchen items.

Mnemonics (or mnemonics) is the art of remembering. It includes many different special methods that help to master the ability to quickly and easily memorize a large amount of information for a long time. One of the main foundations of these methods is association. Any information can be turned into visual, auditory or tactile abstract images, to connect it with objects already rooted in the mind. This principle is followed by any mnemonics.

Storytelling is a way of transmitting information and finding meanings through storytelling, narration of myths, fairy tales, parables, epics. These stories can be about fictional or real characters. Ask how this concept relates to effective memorization techniques. Everything is very simple.As already noted, information is always easier to remember if it causes an association with any particular image or object. As such an image or an object, some kind of story may be quite relevant, in meaning related to the stored information.

The interval repetition method is very effective when you need to quickly master a large amount of information (for example, before exams). You can use the repetition technique after the main study of the text according to the following principle:

• 20 minutes after study;
• after 6-8 hours;
• in a day.

If you need to remember information for a long period of time, you need to repeat it several times:

• once a day memorization (the entire amount of information);
• after 3 days, repeat the main points, say, the "skeleton" of the text;
• after 6 days, repeat the entire volume again, but in a different order.

Recommendations that will help you quickly remember new information and will contribute to its better absorption are quite simple. We list them.

1. When mastering a large amount of information, you must do breaks every 20 minutes of study. The brain should rest and reboot. If you try to master the information at an accelerated pace, such a method will not lead to anything good. Overloads will result in the fact that information is absorbed poorly or not absorbed at all. Even the information that was studied the day before can disappear at a time when you need to extract it from your head.
2. Define a couple of hours to study the material, but at this time do not get distracted by anything else. Only during breaks, when you relax, you can afford to switch (for example, drink coffee, listen to classical music, which favorably affects the process of memorization). And at the very moment of study, concentrate as much as possible only on information.
3. Be aware that the phase of active work of consciousness falls on the morning hours (from 8: 00 to 10: 00) and on the evening (from 20: 00 to 23: 00). And during sleep, the information received during the day is actively synthesized, so the information studied in the evening is remembered better. And those fictional tales about the fact that the book put under the pillow for the night writes the necessary material in our memory do not have any reasonable basis.
4. While studying information, you can walk around the room. This will even be a useful action, as blood circulation increases during movement, and the brain is actively saturated with oxygen. This affects the memorization process very well. And also in your free time from studying, you can take long walks, which also positively affect mental activity.
5. If you are sick or unwell do not bother and overload the weakened body with the study of information, because the efforts will be in vain, the material will not be remembered and will not be postponed, no matter how you try.
6. When you feel very tired, and during the development of information you are drawn to sleep, it is better to surrender to the power of the body's natural need and sleep for at least 30-40 minutes. Even a short dream helps to increase the efficiency of memorizing information several times.
7. It is advisable not to put off an important matter until tomorrow, if it can be done today. The more you delay the moment you study something necessary, the less time will be left for preparing and mastering the entire amount of information.