50 Best Memory Methods & Tests by Michael Dansel

Author:Michael Dansel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: memory tests
Publisher: W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd

Remember

To memorise what you have observed:

Work towards a photographic image of the whole.

Work towards a systematic observation of all of the elements, following a logical progression.

TIME FOR OBSERVATION

This is not a test in the proper sense of the word. You are being asked to look at the drawing below for 15 seconds and then redraw it. For this exercise, you have one minute.

It is not your talent as an artist that matters here, but rather your ability to remember what you have seen.

Verification

Compare your drawing with the original.

Go through what you left out, what you got wrong and what you added and make a note of them:

THE WAITERS’ MEMORY

Some waiters never remember who ordered what. Others, on the other hand, deserve our admiration. They are capable of remembering several different orders, not only from a single table but also throughout the restaurant. They never serve a coffee to someone who asked for a lemonade.

What is their secret? How can one explain their prodigious memory. In fact there are several possible ways in which to achieve the same result.

Some work particularly by association. They take orders to a system and, by observation, associate them immediately with the right customer without confusing which customer asked for what.

Others, using a kind of permanent mental gymnastics, remember particularly well because they concentrate and put all their attention on their work.

Then there are those who simply enjoy the job and whose motivation strengthens the memory.

None of these methods conflict and often they combine in the same waiter. However, in the majority of waiters, just one of these characteristics dominates even though the others may also be present.

MATCHING THE IMAGES

This test relies essentially on the visual memory. Below is a panel with ten boxes. Inside each box there is an image. These boxes have deliberately not been numbered, in order to avoid involving the associative memory. It is therefore simply a matter of retaining what the retina has placed in your brain.

The Ancient Greeks and Romans attached quite a special importance to images. They held the view that sight was superior to the other senses, which is why they used it for memorising their speeches, notably with the method of loci, which we have already discussed at the beginning of the book-Remember that it is impossible to memorises places and images without observation.

You have one minute to look at these ten pictures. Then write down the name of the image that relates to that box, without any further reference to the ten illustrations. Score two points for each correct answer, making a maximum of four points for each correct line.

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