Elderly people are said to be distracted and forgetful due to increasing sclerosis. In reality, forgetfulness is not only the “privilege” of the elderly. Alas, people of different ages can have a "leaky" memory.
What memory do you have? To get an answer to this question, use the following test.
Within 1 minute - put your watch in front of you - read 25 words, close the text and in 5 minutes write down in any order all the words that you managed to remember. Count the number of words written and give each word you write 1 point.
By the amount of points, determine which category you can classify yourself into.
Test words:
hay, sidewalk, key, century, plane, film, train, aroma, painting, Carpathians, month, Himalayas, singer, stillness, radio, calendar, grass, man, pass, woman, car, abstraction, heart, helicopter, bouquet
Test results:
6 points or less... Your memory (primarily visual) is not in the best condition. But this is not at all hopeless - engage in regular exercises to train your memory, such as reading books, memorizing texts, etc. Mental arithmetic also helps. Consume vitamins. If necessary, consult a doctor or psychologist about individual methods prevention of forgetfulness.
7-12 points
Your memory is not so bad, but you, apparently, do not know how to concentrate, and this always interferes with memorization.
13-17 points
Your results are quite decent, and you can expect that in most cases your memory will not let you down.
18-21 points
An excellent result that proves that you have an outstanding memory. You can force yourself to concentrate, therefore, you have sufficient will. Don't worry about your memory.
Over 22 points
You have a wonderful, if not phenomenal, memory!
1. Do you have any difficulty in remembering the name of this or that street?
a) No.
b) Yes.
2. When you leave home, do you often find that you have not taken something you need with you?
a) No.
b) Yes.
3. Is it hard for you to remember a person by sight?
a) No.
b) Yes.
4. Going to bed, can you easily list the events of the day?
a) Yes.
b) No.
5. Does it happen that you miss your favorite TV show because you simply forget about it?
a) No.
b) Yes.
6. Sometimes, when you hear a sound, you go over in your head for a long time, what does it resemble?
a) No.
b) Yes.
7. Do you sometimes leave things in public (or private) transport?
a) No.
b) Yes.
8. Do you easily remember PIN-codes and passwords in general that you often use?
a) Yes.
b) No.
9. Do you often have to look for different items at home or in the workplace?
a) No.
b) Yes.
10. Arriving at the store, sometimes you forget to buy something from the planned?
a) No.
b) Yes.
11. Sometimes you can miss an important memorable date?
a) No.
b) Yes.
12. Can you confidently list what you ate at lunch yesterday?
a) Yes.
b) No.
13. Do you find it difficult to retell the content of the text you have read without missing important details?
a) No.
b) Yes.
14. Do you ever get out of your head with an appointment or even a date?
a) No.
b) Yes.
15. Can you easily retell a recently heard anecdote?
a) Yes.
b) No.
Summarize the points and read the conclusions.
For each answer "a" give yourself 2 points, for the answer "b" - 0 points.
0-12 points.Your memory is probably not at its best. For its restoration and development, it is very useful to memorize poems and entertaining quotes. Try to transform information into images. So, walking down the street, pay attention to the numbers of the cars and try to make sentences from the letters on them. For example, KSM - “Beauty will save the world”. The exercise is simple, but effective. Vitamins will have a beneficial effect on the ability to remember, do not neglect them. And from alcohol and especially smoking should be abstained.
14-22 points.In general, the result is satisfactory. So that your memory does not let you down, it must be made to work! Use your notebook less often when dialing phone numbers - this is one of the excellent methods of training your memory. In the memorized material, specify all the details, even the smallest and most insignificant. If you need to memorize something difficult, do it piece by piece at short intervals. Do not be lazy to read the text aloud, so it will be absorbed much better. Try the following: try to link everything difficult to remember with some information or concept known to you - vivid associations help many.
24-30 points.You have a good memory. Just don't try to keep everything in your mind. In this age of aggressive advertising and negative news, this is fraught with overwork and increased anxiety.
GOOD LEE test DO YOU HAVE MEMORY? "
In Latin American television series, the heroes lose their memory in various disasters through one in order to make the plot more interesting. In reality, true amnesia is much less common, but memory fails everyone from time to time. We cannot remember the name of a work colleague, we forget about the birthdays of our relatives and best friends, the plots of recently read books are not postponed in our heads at all. This greatly complicates both work and personal life. It is not for nothing that truly great people usually have wonderful memories.
For example, Napoleon, not only knew many soldiers of his huge army by their names, but even remembered which of them was brave and staunch, and who was a drunkard and lazy. Do you have a good memory? This will help validate today's test.
totally agree - 3 points;
more likely yes than no - 2;
rather no than yes -1;
completely disagree - 0.
1. You don't remember the name of your first school teacher.
2. It's hard for you to remember the name of the last movie you watched in the theater.
3. It is difficult for you to concentrate on one task, you are constantly distracted.
4. You always use a notebook, pieces of paper, a notepad, write something down so as not to forget.
5. You find it difficult to remember the faces or names of new acquaintances.
6. You often forget things at a party, transport, shop, cafe.
7. You hardly remember the birthdays of close relatives and friends.
8. When making calculations, you almost always use a calculator so as not to be mistaken.
9. You often have "gaps" in your memory: you cannot remember the name of a famous actor, the name of the film, the street.
10. You can go astray even if you are not in the area for the first time.
11. In school, you always had serious problems memorizing poetry.
12. You cannot remember the plan and arrangement of furniture in the apartment where you lived as a child.
13. Memory loss, total or partial, is a small loss.
14. You will not recognize the voice of a friend on the phone if he does not identify himself.
15. Even if you know a person well, it is very difficult for you to compose a verbal portrait of him.
12 points or less. "Napoleonic" memory. Yes, your memory is truly imperial. You perfectly remember the faces and names of people you once knew, and even if you look at a group photo of your first grade, you can easily remember the names of all your classmates. People like you are called “encyclopedists”. You know everything and everything - you can remember not only the capitals of all European and Asian states, but also the name of the UN Secretary General in 1980. Perhaps the only negative is that you "litter" your wonderful memory with unnecessary or low-value information. But, perhaps, this has its advantages: you never know what will be needed in a minute. Where, how much, what to buy, how to remove stains, where to go on vacation? ..
13-24 points.Normal memory. You have a good result, it can be rated as a solid “four”. But it happens that your memory fails you. There are offensive "failures": at the most inopportune moment, you can forget the name of a popular film, the name of an actor, some well-known fact. It drives you crazy. Take such things more calmly: memory cannot quickly "get" something from the far shelf of its "archive". Remember everything soon. And to speed up this process, do not forget that memory, like muscles, needs to be constantly trained.
25-36 points.Selective memory. If we discard the false delicacy, your memory is, frankly, "full of holes." You can remember something from the distant past, but forget what happened recently and is important to you. You forget the name of a good acquaintance, but you don’t forget the neighbor you saw from another house. Relying on your memory is contraindicated for you. But this is not as scary as it seems at first glance. The modern world is gradually turning to face you. Telephone numbers have long been stored in "mobile phones", which at the same time can remind you of important matters in time. It is now fashionable to navigate the terrain using satellite navigation systems, and any information can be quickly clarified on the Internet. But training your memory still does not hurt - after all, any electronics tend to refuse at the most inopportune moment.
37 points or more. "Maiden" memory. You live like a hedgehog in a fog - you need to go somewhere and do something, but something constantly distracts you from your intended goal. As a result, by the end of the day, you often can't remember what you did. You regularly lose something, forget things everywhere, being in the world of your own dreams. Therefore, it is very easy to deceive you. You need a worthy guide in life, who will be able to appreciate your "charm" and will constantly return you to reality. Without such a companion, you'd better stay at home - you will be more whole.
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Do you have a good memory?
Do you have a good memory?
Read carefully, but only once, and try to remember the numbers:
64 93 57 68 46 37 39 52 74 49.
Write down the ones that you remember, if possible in the same order.
The number of digits remembered will characterize the volume, and the number of digits that you memorized in the correct order will indicate the accuracy of your mechanical visual memory.
If someone read aloud the same row of two-digit numbers, you might appreciate your mechanical auditory memory and, by comparing the results, to establish what type of memory prevails in you - visual or auditory, unless, of course, something made the results of these experiments random.
After reading or listening to a text, and then writing down what you remember, you can evaluate the accuracy of not only mechanical, but also semantic memory.
Remember as much as possible what is shown in the first figure on the next page.
After covering the first drawing with paper and looking at the next one, tell from memory what is missing here and what is superfluous in comparison with the previous drawing.
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VISUAL, HEARING, GIRL ...
Whether he has a good memory or not, a person, as a rule, learns in the learning process. Students understand this especially clearly during sessions: try to learn a whole book, designed for a semester, in three days, and then carry this valuable load to the teacher. Then the problems begin - some people can calmly memorize a seemingly meaningless text, while others are simply not able to do this.
Memory, as wisely noted in the encyclopedia, is a person's ability to remember, store and reproduce information. It can be different - visual, motor, emotional, auditory, tactile, olfactory ... It all depends on which organ of perception is better developed. Therefore, someone reads thoughtfully, and then retells it several times, and someone immediately sits down at a synopsis and writes a plan. Some people suffer from topographic cretinism all their lives, while others remember the most difficult routes the first time.
TRAINING MEMORY
And yet memory - whether visual, auditory, or motor - no matter how remarkably developed, sometimes fails. If this happens to you infrequently, then you should not worry, but what about those who begin to think: "Do I have sclerosis?" Don't worry, most likely not. It's just that your capricious memory is time to train a little ...
A great way to memorize a text is to sing it along with your favorite music or combine it with movement exercises. For example, you read the first paragraph and jump, on the second you try to make a swallow, and the third you perform to the tune "Oh, viburnum is blooming." Try it, it is very effective.
Our memory is a lady, although selective, but it will surely sink into her soul, and for a long time, information,
associated with emotional uplift. Here's another way for you: while memorizing something, try to find some emotions, laugh at something funny, cry over a sad one, remember something similar from your life, draw parallels, so to speak.
Do not concentrate too much on the subject, strain. The more you strain, the less you learn. It is better to play a game with yourself: open a random text and read a couple of paragraphs just like that, without trying to remember them. We guarantee - later it will turn out that you have memorized the text exactly.
It is best to train your memory in the morning. And here's how.
While in bed, count from 100 to 1 as quickly as possible.
Name the letters of the alphabet in turn, coming up with a word for each of them.
Think of male names for each of the first 20 letters of the alphabet, counting to yourself: "Alexey - one, Bogdan - two, Victor - three, Gabriel - four", etc.
In the same way, come up with:
20 female names;
20 product names (for example: watermelon - one, bagel - two, ham - three, walnut - four, etc.);
20 names of objects per one letter (one - mask, two - potion, three - muslin, four - haze, etc.).
TELL ME WHAT YOU EAT ...
Protein-rich foods will help improve memory. Lean on meat, milk, eggs, fish - they contain substances necessary for the brain: phosphorus, taurine, lecithin, arginine, vitamins and microelements. Don't forget vegetables, especially carrots, but also nuts and bananas. Pamper yourself with pineapples and avocados if possible: pineapples improve brain activity, and the unsaturated fatty acids contained in the oily pulp of exotic avocados strengthen gray cell membranes.
And here's another tip: drink as much liquid as possible! It is known that water lovers who drink 1.5-2 liters daily have a much better memory than those who limit themselves to three cups of tea or coffee a day. And as a dietary supplement, be sure to take B vitamins, choline and inositol, and lecithin. These drugs improve brain function.
It turns out that our brain is still an esthete, it adores good smells. If you are preparing to perform or have a lot to remember, mix three drops each essential oils lemon. orange and lavender, drop a drop of this mixture into a mug of hot water and place in the room where you work. Take short breaks from time to time and sniff the mixture of lavender, lemon balm and mint oils for 4-6 minutes. This will calm the tired brain and increase its efficiency.
CLOSE YOUR FINGERS
If you need to remember something (for example, the last name, first name and patronymic of a new acquaintance), repeat it several times aloud or to yourself, and then seal it. How? It's very simple. Close the thumbs and forefingers of both hands into a ring, press firmly and hold for 15-20 seconds. Practice shows that this gesture increases the efficiency of memorization by 70, or even 100 percent.
But the most important thing is to develop memory! You can do this at any age, but the earlier you start, the better.
Do a special exercise every day - neurobics.
Several times a day, do simple, habitual actions (dress, wash, make the bed) with your eyes closed.
If you are right-handed, write a few lines with your left hand, if you are left-handed, do the same with your right hand.
Walk backwards for at least five minutes a day. Does not work? This is just the beginning. Two or three workouts - and you yourself will be surprised at how easy this exercise is for you.
But the most important thing is that you constantly, day after day, train your memory, make your brain work. You can solve crosswords or scanwords, learn songs and poems, solve chess studies and math problems, learn foreign languages \u200b\u200band even play cards! The main thing is that you do all this with interest and passion. Then the information will be better assimilated and your memory will not let you down.
TEST "DO YOU HAVE GOOD MEMORY"
Time yourself out and try to memorize as many of the 25 words below as possible in one minute. Then take a blank sheet of paper and write down all the words that you managed to remember. But keep in mind that you only have five minutes for this job.
TEST WORDS
Straw, border, castle, century, helicopter, TV, train, perfume, landscape, Carpathians, year, Himalayas, singer, stillness, radio, day, roses, man, mountains, woman, machine, artist, heart, rocket, bouquet.
TEST RESULTS
✓ From 6 points or less
Your memory (primarily visual) is not in the best condition. But this is not at all hopeless. Train her, rely on vitamins, and then at 85 years old you will be able to recite "My uncle of the most honest rules ...".
✓ 7 to 12 points
Your memory is not so bad, but you, apparently, do not know how to concentrate, and this always interferes with memorization.
✓ From 13 to 17 points
Your results are quite decent, and you can expect that in most cases your memory will not let you down.
