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don’t need to use any of the proposed techniques if you have no problems with reading comprehension.
Cold hydrotherapy improves reading comprehension by increasing alertness and reducing boredom and fatigue. In some situations (elevated mood or overactivity), cold hydrotherapy is counterproductive.
The modified high-protein diet (Chapter Three) should improve attention control and fluid intelligence and will help you to digest large amounts of text over weeks or months.
The depressant diet is suitable for texts of low to moderate complexity.
The fruit-and-vegetable diet seems to produce the greatest improvement of fluid intelligence, which is useful when learning complex material. This diet also increases procrastination and distractibility either right away or after a few days.
The use of free online dictionaries and encyclopedias facilitates comprehension of complex texts. Reading introductory material before reading a complex text is also useful.
The method of increasing detail facilitates reading large texts. It consists of reading the main title and all titles of the chapters within the text, then the main summary, then the summary of each chapter. After that, you read the whole text from start to finish. If summaries are unavailable, then reading either the first or last sentence in each paragraph serves as a way of reading “a summary” of a chapter.
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Table 4. Characteristics of various diets that are relevant to different types of tests. The data are based on the author’s personal experience. “Speed” means information processing speed. “Fluid intelligence” means the ability to understand and solve complex problems. “Sizeable text items” means performance on test questions that contain large portions of text (for example, a page of text).
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Fruit-and-vegetable diet
Speed : high
Fluid intelligence : excellent
Sizeable text items : so-so
Errors : few
Antidepressant diet
Speed : good
Fluid intelligence : good
Sizeable text items : good
Errors : few
Modified high-protein diet
Speed : good
Fluid intelligence : good
Sizeable text items : excellent
Errors : few
Depressant diet
Speed : low
Fluid intelligence : So-so
Sizeable text items : good
Errors : few
Mixed diet (contains junk food)
Speed : good
Fluid intelligence : So-so
Sizeable text items : good
Errors : many [ 998 ]
Key points:
The modified high-protein diet can be useful for most types of tests or academic exams.
The fruit-and-vegetable diet (for 2 to 3 days) should be useful for intelligence tests, where the best fluid intelligence and the highest information processing speed are necessary.
The fruit-and-vegetable diet will result in poor performance on tests that contain questions consisting of lengthy portions of text.
Adapted cold showers are useful for most tests; hot hydrotherapy worsens performance on tests that require speed and fluid intelligence.
It is possible to slightly increase your IQ score on an upcoming intelligence test if you “prepare” for the test. This preparation involves taking any proctored IQ test and practicing hundreds and thousands of test questions from books about IQ tests. This approach will improve the relevant test-taking skills, not intelligence per se .
A special technique improves performance on tests of attention span (working memory tests).
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Tips on learning a foreign language and building your vocabulary quickly
At this point, we can discuss some techniques that facilitate learning a foreign language, since texts written in a foreign language are in the category of “complex reading material.” A foreign language course is often a part of a curriculum at many educational institutions. Attaining good command of a foreign language requires daily effort and will take several years. This section describes some of my own methods that I developed while learning English. In my experience,
Cold hydrotherapy improves reading comprehension by increasing alertness and reducing boredom and fatigue. In some situations (elevated mood or overactivity), cold hydrotherapy is counterproductive.
The modified high-protein diet (Chapter Three) should improve attention control and fluid intelligence and will help you to digest large amounts of text over weeks or months.
The depressant diet is suitable for texts of low to moderate complexity.
The fruit-and-vegetable diet seems to produce the greatest improvement of fluid intelligence, which is useful when learning complex material. This diet also increases procrastination and distractibility either right away or after a few days.
The use of free online dictionaries and encyclopedias facilitates comprehension of complex texts. Reading introductory material before reading a complex text is also useful.
The method of increasing detail facilitates reading large texts. It consists of reading the main title and all titles of the chapters within the text, then the main summary, then the summary of each chapter. After that, you read the whole text from start to finish. If summaries are unavailable, then reading either the first or last sentence in each paragraph serves as a way of reading “a summary” of a chapter.
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Table 4. Characteristics of various diets that are relevant to different types of tests. The data are based on the author’s personal experience. “Speed” means information processing speed. “Fluid intelligence” means the ability to understand and solve complex problems. “Sizeable text items” means performance on test questions that contain large portions of text (for example, a page of text).
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Fruit-and-vegetable diet
Speed : high
Fluid intelligence : excellent
Sizeable text items : so-so
Errors : few
Antidepressant diet
Speed : good
Fluid intelligence : good
Sizeable text items : good
Errors : few
Modified high-protein diet
Speed : good
Fluid intelligence : good
Sizeable text items : excellent
Errors : few
Depressant diet
Speed : low
Fluid intelligence : So-so
Sizeable text items : good
Errors : few
Mixed diet (contains junk food)
Speed : good
Fluid intelligence : So-so
Sizeable text items : good
Errors : many [ 998 ]
Key points:
The modified high-protein diet can be useful for most types of tests or academic exams.
The fruit-and-vegetable diet (for 2 to 3 days) should be useful for intelligence tests, where the best fluid intelligence and the highest information processing speed are necessary.
The fruit-and-vegetable diet will result in poor performance on tests that contain questions consisting of lengthy portions of text.
Adapted cold showers are useful for most tests; hot hydrotherapy worsens performance on tests that require speed and fluid intelligence.
It is possible to slightly increase your IQ score on an upcoming intelligence test if you “prepare” for the test. This preparation involves taking any proctored IQ test and practicing hundreds and thousands of test questions from books about IQ tests. This approach will improve the relevant test-taking skills, not intelligence per se .
A special technique improves performance on tests of attention span (working memory tests).
[ Previous ][ Next Key Points ]
Tips on learning a foreign language and building your vocabulary quickly
At this point, we can discuss some techniques that facilitate learning a foreign language, since texts written in a foreign language are in the category of “complex reading material.” A foreign language course is often a part of a curriculum at many educational institutions. Attaining good command of a foreign language requires daily effort and will take several years. This section describes some of my own methods that I developed while learning English. In my experience,
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