Development of logical thinking in adults
In everyday life, any person needs to build various logical chains on a daily basis. Visiting supermarkets, planning routes, professional activities, household chores cannot do without the use of logical thinking.
Diagnostics
The study of the logical abilities of an adult is carried out using various tests. There are plenty of them on different sites. Also, for diagnostics, the subject is offered 18 logical problems, each of which has two messages. It is necessary to determine the ratio of the letters located under the problem using the mathematical signs "more" and "less". The answers should look like this: A B. The logic of an individual's mental activity is assessed by the number of correct answers. For 18 correct answers, a person gets 9 points, for 17 - 8, for 16 - 7, for 14-15 - 6, for 12-13 - 5, for 10-11 - 4, for 8-9 - 3, for 6- 7 - 2 and for 5 and below only one point is awarded.
The form for the diagnosis of logical thinking contains approximately the following tasks.
- The conditions for the first problem might look like this: A is less than B in 10 times, B is more than C in 6 times.
- The second task is as follows: A is 3 times less than B, B is 7 times more than C. Place the appropriate sign between the letters A and B.
Correct answers: A
Popular games
An adult should constantly improve logical thinking with the help of various intellectual games. Checkers, chess, poker and other board games have a huge impact on the development of mental flexibility.
Drawing cards with interesting tasks, moving chips, throwing a dice bring people closer together, contribute to the development of communication skills and logical thinking.
The following board games are very popular among adults: "War of the Sexes", "Metro 2033", "Evolution", "Game of Thrones" and "Ancient Horror". These games do not set players against each other, but, on the contrary, rally.
Solving crosswords, charades, puzzles develops logical thinking. Computer games, online simulators and various gaming technologies have a positive effect on the subject's mental activity.
Complex games and tasks to identify patterns of speech units on the basis of a common feature contribute to the development of brain activity and the preservation of logical thinking to a ripe old age. Composing rhymes, using consonant words, inventing parody rhymes for popular songs and poems force the individual to think logically.
Analogy play is a comparative process of the characters of familiar people with chemical elements. For example, a malicious or harmful person is compared with arsenic, a lazy friend with lead, a rich relative with gold.
The old-fashioned fun "Do not take black and white, and do not say no" makes the player quickly and thoughtfully answer questions without using forbidden words. The leader provokes a wrong answer, thereby involving the person in mental activity.
The mobile game, which does not require any special conditions and means, consists in the fact that its participants must, in a given letter, name objects that can be easily placed in a three-liter jar.
The participants in the game alternately inform the presenter what they will take with them on the hike. Players should use some gestures to determine the principle of selecting people suitable for the leader of the event. A person who wants to be among the chosen ones for a campaign, mentally, in a logical way, selects the necessary items and voices their names.
Variety of exercises
Study explanatory dictionaries, come up with your own interpretations of various concepts. You can pick up a symbol for words and depict it graphically. First, take simple word forms like "summer", "peony", "furniture", "eraser", "school". Then try to explain more complex categories in accessible words: "kindness", "anxiety", "responsibility", "expropriation", "maneuvering".
Try to make annotations on the articles or books you have read.
Read up to 10 pages of philosophical treatises or other scientific literature daily in order to form the structuring of thought.
During thoughtful reading, each line should be evaluated and analyzed.
Rephrasing sentences and texts develops logic. For example, in a specific phrase, a deep, abstract meaning is highlighted, after which it is transformed with the help of other words. You can collapse the expression into one word, or, conversely, expand it and bring it to several sentences. At the same time, the meaning should be preserved.
Experts recommend finding refutations for a consistent statement. Arguments indicating the opposite position are written out in a column next to the judgment. For example, the following entries are added to the phrase "winter is a dreary time":
- "The snow shines magically in the sun";
- "Fluffy snow falls from the sky in large flakes";
- "You can see snowflakes of unprecedented beauty";
- "A charming blanket of snow covers the ground";
- “The trees are frozen in snow-white fringe”;
- "The long-awaited New Year is approaching";
- "Happy kids are skiing and skating."
The more rebuttals found, the better.
It is useful to come up with abbreviations on the go and decipher them. The funnier and more original the created options, the better for mental activity. It is advisable to make abbreviations of 3 or 4 letters: SOM - a union of charming monkeys, OKSD - a society of oblique old maids.
Tasks
There are many tasks of various levels that contribute to the development of logic in an adult. While solving logical problems, the person mentally scrolls through all the knowledge available in the memory archive. There are classic and comic tasks, which at their core contain some kind of catch. Quite often the task requires finding the wrong number, letter or picture.
They develop well the logic of the problem to find patterns in a linear series or in a table. It is necessary to carefully examine the picture and fill in the empty cell. Violation of the pattern is not allowed.
Some tasks are related to the order of the numbers. For example, you need to recognize why such a sequence of characters is chosen: 8, 2, 9, 0, 1, 5, 7, 3, 4, 6. The person should guess that the numbers are written in alphabetical order.
There may be such a variant of the task: find an extra word. For example, in the proposed concepts "tuna", "whale", "nelma", "sturgeon", "cod", "shark", "peled", "herring", "chum", "burbot", a mammalian animal whale will be an extra word ... The rest of the concepts refer to fish.
Within a few minutes, you need to solve mental problems, in which the main role is given to representation. It is useful to illustrate the solution process. You can come up with similar tasks yourself. For example, the train went from point A to point B. It went non-stop at a speed of 30 km per hour. The distance between points is 120 km. At the same time, a swallow flew in the same direction. Its flight speed was 60 km per hour. The bird flew to point B, then it returned several times, flew to the train, and then again ended up at point B. So the swallow flew to the train and back until it arrived at the place. How many kilometers did the bird fly?
If the subject begins to visualize how many times the bird has met the train, the problem will not be solved. Only arithmetic calculation is relevant here. To solve this problem, you need to think logically. The train, moving at a speed of 30 km per hour, will arrive at its destination in 4 hours. The answer is obtained by dividing 120 by 30. The swallow was also in flight for 4 hours, but its flight speed was 60 km, therefore, it flew 240 km. The problem can be solved only in a logical way.
Useful tips for developing logic and thinking
Psychologists recommend regularly reading detective stories in order to develop deduction. To do this, you must try to figure out the culprit yourself. Make predictions and conclusions regarding the future behavior of various characters in the work.
You need to change the type of activity more often during the day. After about an hour of class, you need to switch to other activities.
A quick change of work variety helps to accelerate the adaptive thought processes. Analyze your actions systematically. Mentally calculate the various options for the final result of the business you have started.
Learning foreign languages allows the brain to work at full capacity. The subject needs to compare words and phrases, look for similarities and differences between them. Learning grammatical foundations also develops logic, as a person tries to apply the rules in colloquial speech.
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