How to improve memory, retention of my students? New! Seeking to improve the retention of some students and the few days I no longer remember what they saw in class, I found these exercises that I find very practical and accessible to improve memory in older adults are thought, but I think with some children can be successful we hope that also will be useful.
What is memory? Where we keep our memories? A definition of the term memory refers to the set of systems to acquire, retain and retrieve information.
Memory is not a unitary concept, it is evident in various situations. For example, remembering a phone number for a short time, remember if we watered the plants, to recognize a dog as a living being, an action, such as learning to play a musical instrument.
first system is called sensory memory, which is responsible for collecting the information we receive through the senses.
A second system called Short-term memory, which is considered a working memory, where information stays for a short time. It is imperative to work on tasks such as remembering a phone number, to recall a phrase we just read in the newspaper, send a message to us given, etc.
And finally a third system called long-term memory or volatile memory, which refers to the knowledge about the world and of our experiences in the information he would stay a long period of time.
What phases are involved in memory? fundamental phases of memory are: encoding (acquisition phase), storage or time remaining information in memory (retention phase), and the stage bring to mind memories (recovery phase .)
Here's what we do is learn how to implement A number of strategies: 1-In the encoding phase , most importantly, pay attention to the information coming and we want to retain. We
among other things: "No
accommodate several things at once, it does not do well no.
"No worry excessively about the problems, it makes difficult the recording of information.
-by exercising care, train it. We can, for example,
-Read the newspaper, look at names and remember them later.
-Delete all capital letters in a text;
-Exercises of puzzles, in which the target words.
In Anyway, simple tasks that help us to keep our attention in order to put on to work in our daily tasks.
2-In the retention phase, can use various mechanisms, including: -Association: it involves information that comes with other more familiar to us, for example, associating the name of a person with someone you know, a phone number with a known date, age, number of floors, etc..
-categorization: what we have to do is to arrange things according to a criterion, using the common characteristics of objects. For example, remembering a shopping list, grouping by category fruits, meats, dairy products, cleaning supplies, etc..
-verbalization-Repeat: in this case, to perform the action, repeat out loud what we are doing.
-Visualization: This is "mentally see" what we remember. For example, to know how many doors there at home, we go home and mentally "see" the doors of each room, if we remember an object, we imagine what we thought with all its details, or to imagine a face with your eyes , nose, etc.. to remember it later.
3-in phase of Remembrance, what we try to do is recall the information we have recorded in previous stages. We find references and evidence we have collected in the early stages of search and seizure, we must rethink, return to the last place where we've been, etc.. But this is very important to note the following:
"The tension and stress we suffer, we produce alterations of all kinds, both psychological and organic. Also, produce disturbances in memory, because they hinder the registration phase. Therefore, we must learn to be more relaxed. We can learn to relax.
"Things we forget for several reasons, including lack of use, interference between old and new, failures at any stage of memory, etc. However, we keep in mind that forgetting is also necessary. We could not be maintained throughout the life everything that comes in through our senses. What we must ensure the important thing is to remember and forget what is useless.
Once we know the stages of memory and aspects that may be affecting our performance, we will surely ask what specifically do in those situations where we have small daily forgetfulness, and that greatly affect our well-being daily, as a challenge to our memory.
Given that in each type of neglect can adopt different strategies that we discuss in more detail later, as a rule and beginning to go to work our minds we will follow a series of steps:
a) To do not forget:
1.
attention
2. Verbalization
3. Display
b) To remember later:
1. Rethinking
2. Find clues or signals
3. Back to where we just be
In summary, I want to record with care, effort and exercise, we will be more effective not only in our memory, but see that our performance in everyday tasks is increased, which will affect our mood. This will influence our relations with others and quality of life without We doubt we deserved. Ana Isabel Silva
Clinical Psychologist
Ventura Cristina Jiménez Mateo
Sidrón Clinical Psychologist
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