Memory - The law of forgetting and how to train memory at home

Article by Psychologist Truong Ta Anh Nga - Unit of Regenerative Medicine Clinic and Educational Psychology - Vinmec Times City International General Hospital

A Russian physiologist I.M. Sechenov said: "Without memory, man is forever in the state of an infant"
In fact, memory is a psychological process that reflects experiences pre-existing experience of personal experience in symbolic form, including memorization, preservation, and reproduction.
Memory reflects characteristics that have affected the individual's senses. They reflect the subject's life experience capital, and at the same time are modified by the subject's needs, motivations, and interests. Memory is a complex process that includes the process of remembering, preserving, retrieving and recalling.

Memory is an indispensable condition for people to have a normal, stable and healthy psychological life. This is a condition for people to develop high-level psychological functions, accumulate experience and use in life, to meet the increasing requirements of society.
Without the memory process, people cannot have the past, do not know who they are and cannot orientate in space and time.
For cognition, memory stores the results of the cognitive process, so that people can learn and develop their intelligence.
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Forgetting is not being able to reproduce previously memorized content at the necessary time. Forgetting occurs at many levels:
Total forgetting means not being able to recall, not getting back the memorized images. Local forgetting means not being able to recall but retrieving memorized images. The phenomenon of recall means that for a long time cannot recall, but at a certain time suddenly remember. >>> Tests and Treatment for Dementia

Forgetting also happens according to certain rules: People often forget what is not related to life or less relevant, what is not suitable for personal interests and preferences.
Items that are not used frequently in the individual's daily activities are also easy to forget. Besides, you also tend to forget when you encounter new or strong stimuli. Accordingly, they also occur at an uneven speed: in the early stages, the forgetting rate is quite large, later on, the forgetting rate gradually decreases. (Enbinghau's Law)

Exercise your brain regularly such as: performing daily activities with your non-dominant hand, Brain gym exercises, practicing BalavisX, daily sports... Attaching materials to be memorized into study materials students' learning, making that content become the purpose of actions, forming students' needs and interests for that material. Organize teaching activities in a scientific way like students taking a break when switching from one document to another, not teaching two subjects with similar content consecutively. In addition, organizing for students to reproduce learning materials, do applied exercises right after coming home from school, review right after learning new materials, then the review can be gradually reduced. Measures to help students to remember and avoid forgetting.
Memory training methods are very important, helping us to remember things, ensuring the best activities, work, and learning life. Protecting and enhancing memory is essential.
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