People remember information in different ways. Someone grasps faster, others slowly and worse. People of one type quickly forget facts, while others, after a long period of time, can reproduce the data they have learned. The quality of memorization depends on how the information is presented.
Memory types can be defined according to various classifications. In this regard, there are several types of memory.
Motor and emotional memory
Motor memory is based on the reproduction of movements. In this way, various practical skills are deposited in the mind. This memory is very important for a person. Otherwise, each time you would have to scroll through a certain algorithm in the brain before performing a fairly simple action.
Without motor memory, a person would think about how to put his feet when walking, how to hold a writing instrument.
People with good coordination of movements, physically developed, agile, have good motor memory. Its most striking example is reflexes.
Through emotional memory, people can recognize their own feelings. Emotions that a person has experienced for at least the second time give a signal to his subconscious about exactly how to act in a given situation.
Figurative memory
Figurative memory allows you to preserve the components of the surrounding world in the mind of a person. It consists of visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory and kinetic. It is worth noting that the first two types of figurative memory are usually well developed in most people.
There are individuals who are excellently guided by taste and olfactory memory. Sometimes such individuals find application of their abilities in the professional sphere and become, for example, perfumers or tasters.
The worse one type of figurative memory is developed, the better a person is oriented in another. For example, people without sight have amazing perception and memory for sound or have outstanding kinesthetic memory.
Thus, the lack of information received through one channel is compensated for at the expense of another.
Logical memory
This kind of memory helps people remember their own thoughts. Since a person thinks in words, this variety is also called verbal-logical. Also, this memory allows you to remember the content of literary works or conversations with someone.
Depending on the degree of development of this memory in individual individuals, they can either remember well the general meaning of something, but learn the details poorly, or memorize the verbatim text, but forget the general structure of the text, or remember everything equally well: both the meaning and the particulars.
Regardless of the type of memory, it can and should be trained. For example, the ability to visually remember things can be improved by studying a picture and then mentally replaying it with your eyes closed. And verbal-logical memory is well trained by memorizing poetry.
