| Date: March 31, 2012 | Category: Short-term memory | Comments: |
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Greetings, reader! In this article I will tell you what technique you can use to increase short-term memory. I'll tell you how this technique helped me save money, health and sanity! First, let's figure out what short-term memory is , and why is it important?
Short-term memory is a memory that stores information, the value of which is determined by the current moment in time. To put it simply, an example... Let's say you need to cook soup. Your long-term memory stores all the information about making the soup, and you start cooking. Pour water into the pan, defrost the meat, chop the vegetables.
At every moment of cooking soup, the sequence of cooking is stored in your short-term memory, i.e., what you have already done and what remains to be done. And everything would be fine if you didn’t forget to add salt. The capacity of short-term memory is approximately equal to 7 + - 2 units of information. Each new incoming variable erases the last one from memory.
In general, we use short-term memory constantly and every second, and the larger the volume of this memory, the greater the traffic of incoming information, and the more information we can operate, the more effective we are in any of our manifestations! Can you solve three equations at the same time, performing the actions sequentially in each of them, but without taking notes, but doing everything in your head? So I can’t and I don’t know anyone who is capable of this. But they say that Julius Caesar did something similar :) His short-term memory was impressive! It is with the volume of short-term memory that the so-called “fluid intelligence” is associated, which allows you to quickly solve new problems. In other words, intelligence depends on this type of memory.
Why this talk about “three”? The fact is that I once worked as a receptionist in a transport company, and in my work I had to manage the loading of three cars at the same time, since candidates for this position quickly ran out. This, of course, is not solving equations, but, nevertheless, I had to keep an enormous amount of information in my head. Dispatchers and transport workers will understand me.
Naturally, errors in work were regular, because of this there were constant delays in time, bites from management, and the culmination of everything was a constant headache. "So what to do? Life is like that." “God endured and commanded us!” Similar nonsense poured in from all sides. And so I go home from work at four o’clock in the morning and think about the fact that at nine in the morning I need to be in this “madhouse” again and about how to cope with it. I would like an additional RAM slot
