Recall: a simple but effective technique of development of memory

Think of the phrase

The method of mnemonic phrases familiar to us from childhood. A classic example - a phrase that helps to learn the order of the colors in the rainbow, "Every hunter wants to know where sits Pheasant" where the first letter of each word is associated with a certain color "to" - red "on" - orange, "g" - yellow, and so Further.

Another example - the phrase "Dress up Hope, put on clothes", which allows not to make a mistake in the use of the word "put" and "put on." But as many have been taught in school verbs exception of the second conjugation: "To drive, hold, breathe, depend, to see, hear, and hurt, and even turn to look, hate and suffering."

How to use. Any-zapominalka phrase you can write yourself. It is important that the images you were close and clear, even if they are absurd and ridiculous.

Here's how you can, for example, remember the words with a similar accent: the contract - the verdict - a conversation.

Associate images

This method is based on the binding information, and in a certain way. Suppose you need to remember a few words: "pen", "table", "butterfly", "house", "mirror". Make these things bright cartoon characters. To enhance the effect, you can distort the proportions and to some action. For example: huge butterfly flies into the house, sat down on the table, picks up a pen and threatened her in the mirror. It is absurd, but the picture is bright, remember.

How to use. Try using images and associations to learn foreign words. For example, the German wetter (weather) is similar in pronunciation to "wind". And therefore easy to imagine the scene: a breeze blew up the sail and rushing to the city a tornado.

British owl (owl) consonant with the word "aul". A good way to remember - to present, as the owl flies in the hills above the aul.

Visualize

Numbers and letters are similar to certain items. And it can be used. For example, the number 210 is easily represented in the form of a swan (2), floating to the flags (1) with a donut beak (0).

How to use. Often practice visualization, and you get used to convert the data that you need to remember, in a certain way. For example, the number 4, many associated with a chair, 8 - with a snowman or woman figure skater, and 3 - with bogatyrom (three heroes). Use these images permanently.

Sing and rhyme

A great way to remember anything - music. It structures the information, it makes it easy to repeat and remember. Probably from childhood in your mind entrenched obsessive songs, with which you have been taught some rules.

That's how, for example, children are taught music and sings: "Do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si - landed carp. C, A, G, F, E, D, to - so here they nest! ".

On English lessons often use the song ABC song.

The same applies to the rhyme. With funny poem "Sweet Hokkaido! I'll Honshu. For your Shikoku Kyushu I love you "- many remembered in geography name the four main islands of Japan. And the phrase "bisector - a rat that runs on the corners and divide them in half," helped to teach geometry. All this will be remembered for years to come.

How to use. Compose yourself poems, try to alter your favorite songs using the information you want to remember.

Draw icons

Way of remembering, well suited to people-visuals. Key words and phrases are selected icons - symbols. There is no need to split hairs. For example, in the case of a holiday, draw a glass or fireworks, if the sport - a dumbbell or a ball and so on.

How to use. If you need to memorize the text, highlight while reading the key phrases or words and draw them to the icon. After reading try to restore the meaning of reading for your pictures. Such a coded letter, with practice, you can use instead of abstracts and also cribs.

Build a Memory Palace

Memory Palace (or Method of Cicero) - another good way to remember the information with the help of associations. He involves the creation of a matrix of images. The basis for it can be anything: your room, your favorite place in nature (for example, the clearing in the woods), the path on which you walk, empty room.

This space you will need to fill out the images. Imagine that you Set your items to specific locations. Think scheme by which you will examine them mentally. In the room you can do it in a clockwise direction, from wall to wall, on the path - moving forward.

How to use. Suppose you need to remember the sequence of your speech for presentations. Can you imagine the room in which stands on a window sill flower in a pot. For him, you ask key piece of your presentation. For example, you talk about how to develop your company. Then turn to the wall, where the picture with the mountains, similar to the schedule hangs whose data you want to sound. Next you see the chair in which sits the wise man, a quote that you want to lead. And so on.

You can make the room shelves for different subjects (physics, mathematics, etc.) or events. Construction of the palace of memory is limited only by your imagination. Choose the most convenient for you space and images, as well as the scheme by which you will be on the beat. The main thing here - to use persistence.

Determine the intervals

In order to assimilate the information and well-remembered, it should be repeated with a certain periodicity. This technique is called spaced repetition.

Interval time should be increased. For example, you learned a new English word. It needs to be repeated after a couple of minutes, then - after an hour, then - after two days, five days, 10 days, three weeks, six months and so on.

How to use. There are applications that help to memorize using spaced repetition. For example, Anki-cards.

Follow these tips

1. Do not try to apply all the techniques of memorization immediately. Start small - what more to their liking. Then proceed with the following techniques.
2. A simple way to strengthen and better understand what they read before the exam material - several times to retell it to someone.
3. Memorize any information easier in small portions. A striking example - the phone numbers that are difficult to remember a single set of numbers (for example, 89003546892), but is much easier - is divided into blocks (8900354 68 92).
4. If you need remember the names a few strangers, looking for features. For example, a person has an aquiline nose, you associate it with a bird and then attached to her name.