Friday 5 December 2014

Increase Intelligence

Anyone can increase intelligence as the brains memory is an essential part of the brains intellectual functioning and that this can be improved (see Jaeggi et al., 2008). These studies and others into intelligence show that IQ scores can be improved and that an IQ test is merely a good starting point for kids or adults to commence a journey towards increasing intellectual skills for meaningful gains in all walks of life. So what does it take to increase intelligence and raise IQ? Well advice from Doctor Sarah Cassidy, an educational psychologist and a co-founder at RaiseYourIQ includes



Psychologists have discovered that there is a strong correlation between a person’s relational skills and IQ scores (O’Hora, Pelaez & Barnes-Holmes; 2005, O’Toole & Barnes-Holmes;2009, Cassidy, Roche & Hayes; 2011, Roche, Cassidy & Stewart; 2013). Crucially we now know that relational skills can be taught to any person.


So improving your relational skills will in turn increase your IQ score. So what are Relational skills?, they are the understanding of a handful of mathematical relationships between concepts or objects such as things are the same as other things, more or less than other things, opposite to other things, and so on.


They also include relationships like before and after or that one thing is contained by another. Moreover, having a strong handle on the relationships between and among other things has been shown to enhance thinking and problem solving skills. In fact, these relational skills are now being called the building blocks of intelligence by psychologists in the field of Relational Frame Theory.

Read the full article here Increase Intelligence





Wednesday 3 December 2014

Brain Training Gamification For Business

Gamification for business in the form of brain training can be used as a educational tool to train, test, assess, and develop  employees. Brain training as a gamification tool for business can work to increase the intellectual brain power of a team or group while improving collective problem solving skills.Brain training can be applied to testing employees IQ, problem solving ability, raise intellectual horsepower, sales training and in improving the overall learning capacity within a business.






When people talk about gamification, they think about games created for business training purposes. Gamification is about spotlighting the asset of an existing core  competency byusing the motivational techniques that make games so engaging. When you increase the intellectual capactiy of a work force companies can drive more sales, build stronger bonds even have higher customer satisfaction levels.


Given the recent engagement numbers released from Gallup, showing 71 percent of workers
are “not engaged” or “actively disengaged” in their work, brain training as a gamification tool is a fun, rewarding and beneficial way to reconnect employees. Brain training has both intellectual and health impact as healthy, fitter brains have been scientifically proven to be happier and more open to learning new ways to accomplish tasks. Brain training is a super learning and brain development tool for any business person or team.


Gamification in Business

Monday 1 December 2014

Tutoring and Homework Help using Brain Training

Why do students have to wade through session after session of  reading and learning to
complete homework assignments, when some brain training exercises can speed up the acquisition of knowledge. 




The SMART brain training program can be used as a tutoring and homework aid as it works across school curriculum to make learning mathematics, languages,reading and science easier. SMART brain training acts like an online tutor, showing kids how to learn faster and easier no matter what
the topic. SMART brain training has been developed by educational psychologists following over 10 years of research and is now scientifically proven to raise IQ by 20-30 regardless of the child's
intellectual development. For more information on the RaiseYourIQ team, and the science behind SMART brain training please read our web section of "What is SMART"

 
Tutoring and Homework Help using Brain Training

Monday 24 November 2014

Learning Games

Learning games are designed to help kids make learning easier for math,science and languages. Now teachers and schools are starting to use brain training as a fun yet educational learning game to improve students IQ.



To support the impact brain training can have as a learning tool and how it can increase intelligence, a published research paper (Cassidy,Roche & Hayes, 2011) described how a range of different children
(four normally developing and eight educationally challenged) were provided with SMART brain training as a learning game on a computer in once to twice weekly sessions lasting approximately 90 minutes across several months. IQ tests (WISC III) were administered before the relational training and several weeks following the completion of training.

The results showed the average IQ was raised to over 130,which is called high functioning or exceptional. This means that these children’s intellectual ability was moved from average range to within the top 2% of the population simply by using brain training as a learning game. Any parent,teacher or psychologist is welcome to contact RaiseYourUQ for a full copy of this report.

RaiseYourIQ a psychologists run company, continues to publish research into brain training within the school and education system.

Tuesday 18 November 2014

Brain Training using SMART (Relational Frame Theory) - YouTube

Dr. Bryan Roche of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth,explains what SMART brain training is and why psychologists believe that the new form of brain training called Relational Training, is the future of brain training.

Brain Training using SMART (Relational Frame Theory) - YouTube





Monday 17 November 2014

What are Brain Games?

Brain games or brain training games is an education method using gamification to improve IQ or  intelligence in kids or adults. While the brain training is delivered in a game format, the underlying science uses research based data that transforms psychology developed learning tools into games that trains the brain to learn better,faster and absorb information quicker. At RaiseYourIQ we see brain games as more educational than entertainment.
The SMART brain training games are based on clear evidence that living in an enriched environment with lots of mental stimulation produces positive brain changes. So brain training games are a series of questions,puzzles and exercises to work the brain over a period of time with the end result of improving intelligence.



What are Brain Games?

Brain game training lets anyone to train and improve memory along with other cognitive abilities.

Friday 7 November 2014

How does Brain Training work

Brain training works to enhance intelligence (IQ) along with other cognitive abilities. What separates SMART brain training is our scientific research into the very specific tasks that stimulate the brain in such a way that it leads to improvements in general brain health and intellectual functioning. Research in the field of Relational Frame Theory (Hayes, Barnes-Holmes & Roche, 2001) has shown that understanding relations, such as more than, less than, opposite, same, before, after, here-there, amongst others, is crucial for intellectual development in just about every sphere.



In fact, they are so crucial that researchers have reported in published scientific research papers that we can measure intelligence simply in terms of one’s ability to understand these relations (or what we call “relational ability”). RaiseYourIQ brain training is a skills focused course as it teaches a range of crucial relational skills and brings our relational skills to expert levels, so that all intellectual tasks come easier. SMART brain training gives people the ability to learn faster and better, it helps new information make more sense, and helps the brain think more clearly. 



Thursday 23 October 2014

Brain Training For Seniors

Recent scientific research shows that brain training can help seniors and adults to maintain a healthy brain. Psychologists and neuroscience insights show that brain cell connections really do grow in response to stimulation and that stimulated brain areas are measurably better developed as a result.


According to the  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Even if older people only took an initial set of brain training classes aimed at improving their ability to solve problems and react quickly, participants showed that the training stuck with them a decade later

SMART brain training is also helping people with early Alzheimer's disease to retain cognitive functions. Scientists have documented that brain training of deeper level thinking carries over into untrained brain areas allowing seniors and adults to more effectively assimilate, manage and utilize information. This shows how tied together brain health and physical health are. People of all ages
are finding that brain training provides benefits for a robust brain  function and also preventing cognitive decline.

Can Brain Training Help Seniors

Thursday 2 October 2014

Is it really possible to increase intelligence?

We were once told that intelligence or IQ was fixed for life. However,years of research by doctors and psychologists has lead to thediscovery of the importance of relational skills to intelligence and it
took several more years to by scientists to figure out how best to teach these skills. Today we know that IQ can in fact be increased by quite a degree. There have also been considerable advances in neuroscience in recent years, that have led psychologists to conclude that the brain itself can be made “fitter” with training and can respond and adapt to improved learning opportunities. Even leading authorities, such as Professor Robert Sternberg, now agree that IQ can be raised.

People who have completed the SMART brain training course have seen an average 20-50 point increase or improvement in intelligence or IQ (in both formal IQ tests and IQ assessments). The whole principal andscience behind RaiseYourIQ is teaching people how to learn easier. So mathematics, reasoning,problem solving memory recall and verbal comprehension become easier to understand hence working the brain fitter. The proof of this process lies in taking a pre and post IQ
assessment test which is free at RaiseYourIQ. Many of our users take SMART brain training to help in education, exams, work tests and IQ tests like MENSA. increase intelligence

Monday 29 September 2014

Brain Fitness

The way to improve brain fitness is to schedule in a few times a week to complete the stages on the SMART brain training course. It is a scientific fact that the fitter the brain, the easier learning becomes to us all. Brain training is all abouthaving a fitter brain, it does take time and effort and over the course of the 12-16 weeks on average it takes to complete the SMART course users will see a marked improvement to how psychologists measure brain fitness namely, thinking ability, ability of the brain to focus better and improved memory skills. Think of brain fitness like a gym membership, you make best use of it when you make the time to exercise. Brain Fitness

Thursday 25 September 2014

Brain Training For Seniors

Brain training for seniors and people advancing in years can help retain cognitive functions. Published scientific research shows that brain training can help seniors and adults to maintain a healthy brain. Psychologists and neuroscience insights show that brain cell connections really do grow in response to stimulation and that stimulated brain areas are measurably better
developed as a result.



A happy, fit brain is also a healthy brain. SMART brain training is also helping people with early Alzheimer's disease to retain cognitive functions. Scientists have documented that brain training of deeper level thinking carries over into untrained brain areas allowing seniors and adults to more
effectively assimilate, manage and utilize information. This shows how tied together brain health and physical health are. People of all ages are finding that brain training provides benefits for a robust brain function and also preventing cognitive decline. RaiseYourIQ includes a series of free brain games online which includes a free IQ test. Can Brain Training Help Seniors




Monday 8 September 2014

Brain Training Free

RaiseYourIQ offers anyone two ways to get some brain training free lessons. The first way is to sign-up for a free trial account. The first 15 lessons on the SMART brain training course are free which includes an IQ assessment test, apart from your email address no other information or credit card is required. Most of our students find this the easiest way to experience how brain training will help raise IQ levels and improve intelligence.

The second way is to download our "brain training free lessons" from our blog. This brain training is a series of questions in a PDF document that you can print off and practise at your leisure. No registration or information is required, just download and start working that brain fit. Click here Brain Training Free


These free brain training exercises will improve your brain performance in an enjoyable way no matter what age you are and they are a great introduction to improving IQ and intelligence. 


Friday 5 September 2014

Brain training for Children

Teachers, Guardians and Parents should consider using brain training for children and students to help improve their IQ levels and so assist them in their educational pursuits. The idea that a childs or persons Intelligence Quotient (IQ) is fixed for life is a myth and for far to long as been used as an excuse for poor teaching and learning methods.



 Brain training for Children

If a childs brain needs a power up, then the RaiseYourIQ intellectual skills intervention called "SMART brain training" (Strengthening Mental Abilities with Relational Training). We do not teach children and students anything that they can use in their examinations (e.g., how to multiply, the capital of Canada). Instead a RaiseYourIQ course will teach the foundational reasoning skills crucial to vocabulary acquisition and mathematical reasoning. In effect, we are giving kids, students and adults the tools to learn more effectively. Moreover our training re-mediates deficits in these skills bases that cannot be taught at school efficiently without extensive one-to-one assistance, plus SMART can even help children to catch up to and even surpass the population average in intellectual ability. The SMART brain training course can act as a springboard from which future learning occurs across all age groups.




Monday 1 September 2014

Brain Training Exercises

The brain training exercises on RaiseYourIQ are designed to improve the ability of the brain to learn faster and easier. Brain training exercises are similar to revision sessions in school or on a business presentation. As each brain training module is completed, there is revision time to repeat and re-learn information, facts, and formulas. The main difference in progressing through brain training exercises is that the focus is on strengthening the weak areas of the brain to make these fitter so to make learning easier.
So brain training exercises really challenge the brain by gradually building up the complexity of the exercises over a period of time.


Here is an example of a brain training exercise from RaiseYourIQ. Try it for yourself.

If an object B is larger than another object C,and an object A is larger than B, and an object D is smaller than object C, is D less than or more than A?


To learn more and get 15 free brain training sessions plus a free IQ assessment click here.
Brain Training Free Trial






Thursday 28 August 2014

Identifying the Basic Building Blocks of Intelligence | Psychology Today

This Psychology Today article on the Building Blocks of Intelligence was written by Doctor Bryan Roche in his IQ Boot Camp expert blog, Bryan is a co-founder of RaiseYourIQ.com. In this article he poses the question "Will honing your relational framing skills make you smarter?"

The full article can be read on Psychology Today at the below link


Identifying the Basic Building Blocks of Intelligence | Psychology Today

Wednesday 27 August 2014

Children Need Brain Training

As a psychologist and educator I put forward the arguement that children need brain training as
part of their education in schools. Why?. In my experience schools are not equipped to help children reach their intellectual potential. As much as we may like to believe it, schools are not perfect places in which to educate a child. While they may do their utmost within budgetary constraints to impart the knowledge and skills a child needs to function in the world as an adult, they simply cannot provide the one-to-one attention that a child needs to reach their full intellectual potential. Even if a parent is fortunate enough to afford private schooling of the highest standard, or private tutoring from leading scholars, this still cannot maximize intellectual development for a surprisingly simple reason: those experts don’t know what to teach to make that happen.

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While an expensive tutoring company will boast about improvements in school grades, they achieve this only by “teaching to the examination”, whatever that may be; SATs, a University entrance exam, or whatever. In other words, intensive education usually focuses on knowledge content and some  basic skills tested directly in examinations. None of this will enhance a child’s overall intellectual ability much. That approach simply does not provide practice at skills basic enough that learning itself becomes easier. And the reason that most education leaves the child knowing more, but not any smarter, is because until now educational psychologists and neuroscientists did not fully understand
what skills precisely underlie “being smart”.


The Good News for Every Child
Psychology research in a field known as Relational Frame Theory has identified what are known as “relational skills” as the building block skills that underlie intelligence. The good news is that relational skills can be taught to any child through a form of “brain training”, and dozens of published research studies have now shown this, and argue that this is the kind of training every child needs to really maximize their potential in school and in life.


Relational skills brain training teaches a range of crucial relational skills that help to sharpen  intellectual ability. When these skills are improved, the research suggests, all intellectual tasks come
easier. Relational skills training make you a faster and better learner. It helps new information make more sense, and helps you think more clearly.


Because the school system does not directly teach relational skills, a child can quickly fall behind as they rote learn what is required to do well in school, but without the intellectual skill foundation to make that information meaningful and easy to remember. As a result, they can fall further and further behind over the years, as the effects of their poorly developed basic intellectual skills increase with the increasing demands of education. However, the identification of relational skills as the basic building blocks of intelligence, offers the possibility of re-mediating these deficits in a very efficient way so that educational efforts will be more effective and so that even disadvantaged children
can reach their educational potential.


What Does Relational Skills Training Involve and Where can I get it? Currently, relational skills brain training, which is a form of brain training, is only available online at www.raiseyouriq.com. It can be taken by children or adults, and simply requires completing a series of game-like tasks, for a few short sessions each week, for several weeks. The training involves teaching the user how to  answer blocks of logical questions, first with feedback, and then on their own without any help. The user is taught by the software how to solve these short logical problems, and is gently guided through increasingly difficult tasks that become increasingly easy for the user to solve.


The method employed at RaiseYourIQ.com was developed by behavioral  psychologists over a decade of laboratory research, and is called SMART (which stands for Strengthening Mental Abilities with Relational Training). SMART teaches the user how to learn and how to think more clearly and logically.


Published research shows that SMART training increases the IQ scores (i.e). the standard measure of our intelligence level) of users by at least 10, and up to around 30 points, which represents a highly
significant increase in intellectual ability. It also appears that a high starting intelligence level does not reduce the effects of the training, with intelligent children, becoming even more intelligent. This is because there is no limit to how relationally skilled a user can become. SMART Brain Training For Kids allows infinite improvement because users are encouraged to regularly revise stages of training that they have already mastered, and this helps them become more accurate and faster in solving problems. Even after completion they can continue to train at their own convenience. Our child users typically attain at least a typical adult level of logical reasoning and ability following their training.


SMART brain training targets the foundational intellectual skills that underlie just about everything we do, but specifically the following activities rely heavily on relational skills.


• Using vocabulary

• Understanding word meaning

• Grasping basic and advanced logic

• Remembering information

• Using numbers for mathematics


You can learn more about relational skill brain training here, Brain Training Free where everyone is welcome to sign up for a free trial course.

Scientifically Developed Intellectual Skills Training

Monday 25 August 2014

Smart Brain Training Scientific Evidence

RaiseYourIQ have been involved both as scientists and psychologists in the development of the SMART brain training educational method within the behavioral research community in which the
idea of “relational skills” first evolved. The RaiseYourIQ approach to brain training is based on Relational Frame Theory – a modern theory of cognition, that our team of psychologists have helped to develop over the past two decades.


RaiseYourIQ is the only online brain training company offering online relational skills training
based on the tried and tested methods of applied behavior analysis (ABA). These technologies have developed over decades in a research tradition started by the now legendary psychologist B.F Skinner. Skinner was not a brain scientist. He was an expert in the science of learning and teaching. Skinner’s ideas eventually led to the development of supremely successful treatments for a whole range of educational and intellectual deficits including autism spectrum disorders, and his approach taught us how to help individuals reach and surpass their intellectual potential.


So successful is the applied behavior analysis approach that it is widely considered to be the most effective treatment for autism known to science and it is used by leading scientists and therapists all over the world, in private clinics and in the mainstream school system to help children at every level of academic ability. SMART BRAIN TRAINING has emerged from this applied behavior analysis tradition, and provides a training system that teaches the fundamental concepts required for intellectual development.





Some Published Scientific Research Papers Supporting the SMART Approach





Barnes-Holmes, Y., Barnes-Holmes, D., Roche, B. & Smeets, P. M.
(2001). Exemplar training and a derived transformation of function in
accordance with symmetry: II. The Psychological Record, 51, 589-603.



Barnes-Holmes, Y., Barnes-Holmes, D. & Cullinan, V. (2001). In
Relational frame theory: A post-Skinnerian account of human language and
cognition. Hayes, S. C. (Ed.); Barnes-Holmes, D. (Ed.); Roche, B.
(Ed.), (pp. 181-195). New York, NY, US: Kluwer Academic/Plenum


Barnes-Holmes, Y., Barnes-Holmes, D. & Murphy, C. (2004).
Teaching the generic skills of language and cognition: Contributions
from relational frame theory. In Moran, Daniel J. (Ed.); Malott,
Richard W. (Ed.), Evidence-based educational methods. San Diego, CA, US:
Elsevier Academic Press.


Barnes-Holmes, Y., Barnes-Holmes, D., Roche, B., Healy, O., Lyddy,
F., Cullinan, V. & Hayes, S. C. (2001). Psychological
Development. In Hayes, Steven C. (Ed.); Barnes-Holmes, Dermot (Ed.);
Roche, Bryan (Ed.), Relational frame theory: A post-Skinnerian account
of human language and cognition (pp. 157-180). New York, NY, US: Kluwer
Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001.


Barnes-Holmes, Y., Barnes-Holmes, D., Roche, B. & Smeets, P. M.
(2001). Exemplar training and a derived transformation of function in
accordance with symmetry. The Psychological Record, 51, 287-308.


Berens, N. M. & Hayes, S. C. (2007). Arbitrarily applicable
comparative relations: Experimental evidence for a relational operant.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 40, 45-71.


Cassidy, S., Roche, B. & Hayes, S. C. (2011). A relational
frame training intervention to raise Intelligence Quotients: A pilot
study. The Psychological Record, 61, 173-198.


Cassidy, S., Roche, B. & O’Hora, D. (2010). Relational Frame
Theory and human intelligence. European Journal of Behavior Analysis,
11, 37-51.


Christoff, K., Keramatian, K., Gordon, A. M., Smith, R., &
Mädler, B. (2009). Prefrontal organization of cognitive control
according to levels of abstraction. Brain Research, 1286, 94-105.


Gómez, S. López, F., ; Martín, C. B., Barnes-Holmes, Y. &
Barnes-Holmes, D. (2007). Exemplar training and a derived
transformation of functions in accordance with symmetry and equivalence.
The Psychological Record, 57, 273-294.


Gore, N. J.; Barnes-Holmes, Yvonne & Murphy, Glynis. (2010). The
Relationship between Intellectual Functioning and Relational
Perspective-Taking. International Journal of Psychology &
Psychological Therapy, 10, 1-17.

Gorham, Marie; Barnes-Holmes, Y., Barnes-Holmes, D. & Berens, N.
(2009). Derived comparative and transitive relations in young children
with and without autism. The Psychological Record, 59, 221-246.


Christoff, K., Keramatian, K., Gordon, A. M., Smith, R., &
Mädler, B. (2009). Prefrontal organization of cognitive control
according to levels of abstraction. Brain Research, 1286, 94-105.


Luciano, C., Becerra, I. G., & Valverde, M. R. (2007). The role
of multiple-exemplar training and naming in establishing derived
equivalence in an infant. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of
Behavior, 87, 349-365.




McHugh, L., Barnes-Holmes, Y., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2004).
Relational Frame Account of the Development of Complex Cognitive
Phenomena: Perspective-taking, False Belief Understanding, and
Deception. International Journal of Psychology & Psychological
Therapy, 4, 303-324.




McHugh, L., Barnes-Holmes, Y., & Barnes-Holmes, D.
Perspective-Taking as Relational Responding: A Developmental Profile.
(2004). The Psychological Record, 54, 115-144.




Murphy, C., Barnes-Holmes, D. & Barnes-Holmes, Y. (2005).
Derived manding in children with autism: Synthesizing Skinner's verbal
behavior with relational frame theory. Journal of Applied Behavior
Analysis, 38, 445-462.




Murphy, C., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2009). Derived more-less
relational mands in children diagnosed with autism. Journal of Applied
Behavior Analysis, 42, 253-268.




Murphy, C., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2009). Establishing derived
manding for specific amounts with three children: An attempt at
synthesizing Skinner's Verbal Behavior with relational frame theory. The
Psychological Record, 59, 75-92.




Oberauer, K. (2003). The multiple faces of working memory: Storage,
processing, supervision, and coordination. Intelligence, 31(2), 167-193.




O'Connor, J., Barnes-Holmes, Y., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2011).
Establishing contextual control over symmetry and asymmetry performances
in typically developing children and children with autism. The
Psychological Record, 61, 287-312.




O'Toole, C., Barnes-Holmes, D., Murphy, C., O'Connor, J., &
Barnes-Holmes, Y. (2009). Relational flexibility and human
intelligence: Extending the remit of Skinner's Verbal Behavior.
International Journal of Psychology & Psychological Therapy, 9,
1-17.




Ramsden, S., Richardson, F. M., Josse,G., Thomas, M. S. C., Ellis,
C., Shakeshaft, C., Seghier, M. L. & Price, C. P. (2011). Verbal
and non-verbal intelligence changes in the teenage brain. Nature 479,
113–116.




Rehfeldt, R. & Barnes-Holmes, Y. (2009). Derived Relational
Responding: Applications for Learners with Autism and other
Developmental Disabilities: A Progressive Guide to Change. Oakland, CA:
New Harbinger.




Roche, B., Cassidy, S. & Stewart, I. (2013). Nurturing genius:
Realizing a foundational aim of Psychology, In Kashdan, T &
Ciarrochi, J. (Eds.), Cultivating well-being: Treatment innovations in
Positive Psychology, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and beyond, pp.
267-302. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.




Rosales, R., Rehfeldt, R., & Lovett, S. (2011). Effects of
multiple exemplar training on the emergence of derived relations in
preschool children learning a second language. Analysis of Verbal
Behavior, 27, 61-74.




Stewart, I., Tarbox, J., Roche, B., & O’Hora, D. (2013).
Education, intellectual development, and relational frame theory. In
Dymond, S. & Roche, B. (Eds.), Advances in Relational Frame Theory:
Research & Application, pp. 178-198. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.




Vitale, A., Barnes-Holmes, Y., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Campbell, C.
(2008). Facilitating responding in accordance with the relational frame
of comparison: Systematic empirical analyses. The Psychological
Record, 58, 365-390.




Weil, T. M., Hayes, S. C., & Capurro, P. (2011). Establishing a
deictic relational repertoire in young children. The Psychological
Record, 61, 371-390.

Brain Training Scientific Evidence

Thursday 21 August 2014

Can I Increase My Intelligence?

People and students often ask the question "Can I increase my intelligence" by using some tools or games. Fist things first, What is Intellgence and IQ?

Well intelligence is defined at the ability to learn, understand and makejudgments or have opinions that are based on reason. Being intelligent means having the ability to acquire and use knowledge for solving problems and adapting to the world. IQ is simply the unit of measure for expressing the results of intelligence tests. Specifically, IQ is the ratio of a subject’s mental age (as determined by their performance on an intelligence scale) and chronological age.



There are many types of intelligence, but only standard IQ predicts your success at school and in work. In fact studies show people with higher IQ scores complete more years in school and have higher status jobs. Recent research has also found that people with higher IQs are also happier and healthier. While you do not need to have a high IQ for its own sake, improving your intellectual
ability will help you deal more effectively with school and work challenges, as well as make decisions and solve everyday problems more easily.





So the answer to the question is Yes. However there is no easy fix, just like training in your body in a gym, exercising the brain to become fitter involves time and study. RaiseYourIQ believes that brain training is about teaching people to learn. So brain training is a learning method to enhance a persons 
ability to learn faster, easier, and better. The science to brain training is that the brain processes information through a network of nerve cells called neurons and as a brain learns, groupings of neurons physically work together to accomplish learning or thinking tasks. So brain training is a skills course that requires a few hours a week over 8 to 12 weeks where a final IQ test will indicate the level of improvement. Learn more about SMART brain training here.




Wednesday 20 August 2014

Why Is SMART “Brain Training” different?

The SMART brain training course is not like any other form of brain training online or in clinics. Here at RaiseYourIQ we use the term "brain skills training", or a behavioral training course. The intellectual property behind SMART Brain Training has been developed by education leaders and published psychologists following over ten years research in schools and university.

smart-brain-training


The reason SMART Brain Training  is different is that it does not work by merely improving working memory or teaching users how to perform well on IQ tests.  Instead, our SMART brain training course teaches the fundamental cognitive skills necessary to improve learning and reasoning in
school,business and in everyday life.

SMART Brain Training enhances the entire intellectual skillset.

The web is full of brain training apps or games with no scientific support which just focus on working memory. The SMART Brain Training course (we want our users to see this as an educational course with real world benefits) covers the 4 key areas of "Intellectual Performance"

(1). Verbal Comprehension - improve ability to listen to a question and draw upon learned information

(2).Perceptual Reasoning - improve ability to examine a problem, organize thoughts, create solutions, and then test them

(3).Processing Speed - increase attention to quickly scan, discriminate between and order visual information

(4). Working Memory - increase the ability to memorize new information, hold it in short-term memory and concentrate

RaiseYourIQ offers a no obligation free trial (1st module is 100% free) together with a free IQ Assessment so people can judge for themselves. Brain Training Free The first module is 100% free and nocredit card is required.  To learn more about Why Is SMART “Brain Training” different?


Education is Linked To IQ

Scientific evidence nows shows that education is linked to higher IQ levels. If a person increases the intensity or duration of educational activity, it stimulates the brain to become fitter, making learning easier for any person whether its for school or business.





The view that a persons IQ is fixed for life and cannot be improved has been discredited thanks to several studies. One such study which was recently published by Norwegian scientists Christian N. Brinch and Taryn Ann Galloway. They got around the problem of trying to separate the effect of education on IQ from the possibility that more intelligent people simply choose to have more education. Their study involved examining the effects of an increase in the duration of compulsory
schooling in Norway in the 1960s. This change extended the minimum time in education for all Norwegians from 7 to 9 years. The authors cleverly hypothesized that the IQs of people who experienced this extra mandatory education should have increased by the time they reached
adulthood.


The researchers had access to excellent records of cognitive ability taken by the military for all eligible males at age 19 and they used these to calculate the IQ of each individual in the study. This allowed them to show that IQ had risen by 0.6 of a point on average for all Norwegian males over the period of study, but HAD RISEN BY 3.7 POINTS for every extra year of education received.

These findings provide very strong support for the ideas that education can increase IQ, but more importantly is that those people who are exposed to extra education benefit even greater. The conclusion is the more we learn, the fitter he brain becomes leading to improved levels of IQ. This poses the question, if children and adults know how to learn better, would our normal education system have a bigger impact on their intellectual development and life choices?


The rises in IQ from this study result from a very broad exposure to education extension, but research now shows that IQ rises obtained by an extra year of education are dwarfed by the IQ rises obtainable using the scientifically developed brain training developed by psychologists and authors at RaiseYourIQ, which helps the user to become expert in a range of cognitive skills underlying many forms of intelligence used in education, work, and in everyday life. Teaching people to learn easier and quicker using the brain training course leads to a 20-30 point IQ increase.


Click here to learn more about SMART Brain Training and the science behind it.

You can view the full original article conducted by the Norwegian
scientists here: [Brinch &
Galloway](http://www.pnas.org/content/109/2/

  
 Published originally by Doctor Bryan Roche, co-founder of RaiseYourIQ on his blog Educational Intervention To Raise Your IQ

Monday 18 August 2014

Brain Training

This article is for people or kids considering brain training either as a game or as a serious
intellectual skills course to help improve IQ test scores or brain fitness levels. This article seeks to provide   information of what exactly brain training is and how it works. RaiseYourIQ is at the forefront into improving our brain health using a method known as relational frame theory. Hence, RaiseYourIQ is the only scientifically proven brain training course to improve mental performance and raise IQ by 20 to 30 points. RaiseYourIQ is a research based, scientifically proven brain
training solution with published clinical data providing brain fitness and intellectual skills development courses that have real world health and education benefits beyond games.




RaiseYourIQ invests heavily into research  on IQ development, behavioural psychology and the delivery of intellectual skills training, as well as in techniques for maximizing brain fitness in any
individual. The specific scientific field (Applied Behaviour Analysis; ABA) upon which the RaiseYourIQ methodology is based, is well-established for nearly a century and represents the gold standard approach for helping individuals improve intellectual capacity (over and above the recent slew of neurologically oriented brain training interventions). Importantly, the RaiseYourIQ approach is unique, and proven to be effective, having been developed by psychologists and educators over a number of years. The methodology for the RaiseYourIQ training course is known scientifically as Relational Frame Training


So What Is Brain Training?


RaiseYourIQ believes that brain training is about teaching people to learn. So brain training is a learning method to enhance anyone's ability to learn faster, easier, and better. The science part is the
brain processes information through a network of nerve cells called neurons and as we learn, groupings of neurons physically work together to accomplish learning or thinking tasks. So brain training is a skills course that requires a few hours a week over 8 to 12 weeks where a final
test will indicate the level of improvement.


Is Brain Training Just A Game?


Is brain training a skill to learn or just a game to amuse oneself?.
With the increase awareness of our mental health there is allot ofdiscussion on the web about brain training, brain health and how to improve one’s IQ. Firstly the psychologists with support from clinical trials and data (experts in the field of relational frame training) at RaiseYourIQ have pinpointed that the only real meaningful brain training solutions are the ones focused on improving a person’s relational skill and not just memory re-call which games focus on. This is where brain
training games has its limitations as in education,business and everyday interaction, our brain needs to be able to understand much higher levels of relational skills because we all need to be able to perform more complicated understandings. A brain training game while fun cannot work on the brains relational skills we need to understand mathematics, science, language, to read and speak well. The psychology team at RaiseYourIQ having conducted over 10 years scientific research along
with clinical studies into relational frame training and how it corresponds to IQ.




Does Brain Training Work?


This same question could be asked of any online skills course. If you take an online language course to learn Spanish, then after a period of time you should be able to better understand and speak Spanish. This can be validated by taking assessments and tests as part of the course. The
same applies to a brain training course. After a defined period of time, assessments and tests should indicate to you how much your brain has become fitter across a number of relational skills. SMART Brain Training is a education course to deliver a targeted interaction that challenges the brain to facilitate learning faster and easier, meaning the benefits that go beyond performance on the brain training course itself into school,business and everyday life.
Why not take a free assessment and trial today  or learn more about Brain Training

Monday 11 August 2014

Brain Training Improves IQ

Brain training can improve IQ levels. The thinking that a person's Intelligence Quotient (IQ) is an inherited trait and fixed for life is a common but mistaken one. Years of academic research by psychologists have now shown that intelligence levels improve with training and mental exercise. In line with this,research carried out by RaiseYourIQ at NUIM university, Ireland, have struck upon a
set of basic building blocks of intellectual development. They also devised a method for teaching these critical skills and launched an online brain training course at RaiseYourIQ.com.

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What is IQ?

Intelligence Quotient (IQ) tests index the speed and accuracy with which everyone can perform tasks associated with reasoning or educational attainment (e.g., use numbers, display an extensive vocabulary,concentrate, problem-solve). Despite public misconception, it has been
known for some time now that any intensive educational program can lead to IQ gains (e.g., Brinch & Galloway, 2012; Ceci, 1991). Moreover, new neuroscientific evidence provided in an article published in Nature, shows that IQ can vary considerably in the teenage years as a function of environmental influences (Ramsden, et al., 2011). More recently,several respectable studies by Susanne Jäeggi and colleagues at theUniversity of Michigan have found that practice on a demanding memory task known as the dual n-back task leads to gains in fluid intelligence (the ability to reason and to solve new problems independently of previously acquired knowledge). Finally, in the special education field IQ gains have been routinely reported following Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) interventions. The late O. Ivar Lovaas (1987), for example, reported IQ gains up to 30 points (roughly two standard deviations) following a three-year ABA programme for autistic children.


Why Does IQ matter?

While there is much more to being a well-rounded citizen than intellectual capacity, a persons IQ will nevertheless roughly predict their educational success (Deary, Strand, Smith & Fernandes, 2007)
and is associated with a range of several positive life outcomes (Schmidt & Hunter, 1998). One study (Frey & Detterman, 2004) found a high correlation of 0.82 between IQ and American Standard
Aptitude Test (SAT) scores. The latter are widely used as selection criteria for college places and other training and employment  opportunities. Another study (Deary et al., 2007) found a correlation
of 0.81 between IQ and British GCSE scores. Taken together, these findings strongly suggest that any enhancement of intellectual skills will broaden educational and employment opportunity for the individual.
The problem is that attempts to raise IQ have until recently been rather haphazard and often ineffective. However, in research over the past decade, in collaboration with a community of international professionals, RaiseYourIQ is leading the brain training community in having identified what appears to be a set of basic building blocks of intellectual development.


How To Make a Genius of any Person

Research in the field of Relational Frame Theory (Hayes, Barnes-Holmes & Roche, 2001) co-authored by Doctor Bryan Roche from RaiseYourIQ, has shown that understanding relations, such as more than, less than, opposite, same, before, after, here-there, amongst others, is crucial for our intellectual development in just about every sphere. In fact, they are so crucial that researchers have reported in published scientific research papers that we can measure intelligence simply in terms of one’s ability to understand these relations (or what we call “relational ability”). As an example of an abstract relational skill that we all must acquire, consider the example of how monetary currency works. With physical currency, the value of a coin is unrelated to its physical size. So while coins have varying magnitudes in terms of size, the magnitude of interest in the context of value, is the buying power of the coin, not the length of its circumference. The latter is easily discernible by
any animal, human or otherwise. But the abstract purchasing power magnitude is arbitrary and abstract and not discernible from looking at the coin alone. Coin value is an abstract relational property. Using money, therefore, requires a basic grasp of some algebraic concepts, which is precisely why children cannot usually use money. Their relational skills are not far enough advanced to allow them to deal with abstract and arbitrary relations between symbols.


We have all learnt relation skills. Parents and teachers already teach children relational skills routinely without even knowing it. For example, parents inadvertently teach young children the concept of “sameness” in normal language interaction. To be more specific, a parent will not just teach a child one word for a television set, they may in fact use two. On one occasion they may refer to it as the “TV”
and on another as “the box”. The child will have to be explicitly told in the early years that given this information, “TV” and “box” refer to the same thing. Any confusion shown by the child is met with assurance from the parent that whenever two words are used for the same thing – those two words have the same meaning as each other. This is just one way in which we all learn to understand what “same” means and how “same” relations can be derived across multiple words and objects in logical
ways. This in essence is a skill required for vocabulary expansion. If it were not for this skill, each and every word our vocabulary would have to be taught individually and related to each other word
individually (i.e., billions of individual learning tasks). Other relational concepts, such as Opposite, and comparison, have uniqueproperties, and it is surprising how inefficient many children and even
adults are in their basic grasp of the truly abstract nature of these relations.





SMART training teaches students how to learn


The RaiseYourIQ intellectual skills course is called SMART brain training (Strengthening Mental Abilities with Relational Training). The SMART brain training course teaches the foundational reasoning skills crucial to vocabulary acquisition and mathematical reasoning. In effect, we are
giving people and students the tools to learn more effectively.

Friday 8 August 2014

Brain Training : A Relational Skill

Brain training is a relational skill. So what is a relational skill and how does this effect our brain fitness or health. Well simply put a relational skill is a skill involved in understanding the relationship
between things in the world. Understanding the relationships between a
set of cousins, or understanding that a particular group of plants are
all of the same kind (e.g., flowers), or understanding that a Poodle is a
type of dog but a dog is not a type of poodle, are all examples of
basic relational skills.

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In the real world, our brain needs needs to be able to understand higher levels of relational skills as of course, they get more complicated than
this. The relational skills you need to understand high level
mathematics or to read and speak well, are great example of more advanced skills the brain needs to be able to perform.



SMART
brain training teaches a range of basic but crucial relational skills
and brings your relational skills to expert levels, so that all
intellectual tasks come easier. SMART brain training makes you a faster
and better learner, it helps new information make more sense, and
helps you think more clearly.



The SMART brain training is a revolutionary educational and behavioral teaching tool developed by RaiseYourIQ scientific researchers and is based on research into Relational Frame
Theory conducted by RaiseYourIQ and in several Universities in Europe and the
USA.



SMART helps kids,adults even business people to become expert in some critical cognitive
skills, called Relational Skills. These skills underlie just about
everything you do in school, at work and in normal day-to-day decision
making and problem-solving.






Monday 14 July 2014

Brain Training Starters Guide

Brain Training Starters Guide




Brain Training : What Is A Relational Skill?


A relational skill is a skill involved in understanding the relationship between things in the world.
Understanding the relationships between a set of cousins, or understanding that a particular group of plants are all of the same kind (e.g., flowers), or understanding that a Poodle is a type of dog but a
dog is not a type of poodle, are all examples of basic relational skills. But of course, they get more complicated than this. The relational skills you need to understand high level mathematics or to
read and speak well, are more advanced skills. SMART brain training teaches a range of basic but crucial relational skills and brings your relational skills to expert levels, so that all intellectual tasks come easier. SMART brain training makes you a faster and better learner,it helps new information make more sense, and helps you think more clearly.

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Why Is SMART “Brain Training” different?


SMART is not like any other form of brain training, and at RaiseYourIQ we use the term "brain skills
training" , or a behavioural training course. SMART Brain Training has been developed by education leaders and published psychologists following over ten years research in schools and university. SMART Brain Training does not work by merely improving working memory or teaching users how to perform well on IQ tests.  Instead, our SMART brain training course teaches the fundamental cognitive skills necessary to improve learning and reasoning in school,business and in everyday life.
SMART Brain Training enhances the entire intellectual skill set.


Some brain training "games"just focus on working memory, the SMART Brain Training course (we want our users to see this as an educational course with real world benefits) covers the 4 key areas of "Intellectual Performance"

(1). Verbal Comprehension -improve ability to listen to a question and draw upon learned information

(2). Perceptual Reasoning - improve ability to examine a problem, organize thoughts, create solutions, and then test them

(3). Processing Speed - increase attention to quickly scan, discriminate between and order
visual information

(4). Working Memory - increase the ability to memorize new information, hold it in short-term memory and concentrate

Take a Free trial and Free Assessment to judge for yourself. Brain Training Free
The first module is 100% free and no credit card is required.





What Does Brain Training Involve?
The SMART brain training course from RaiseYourIQ is divided into levels with blocks of questions. The course involves teaching the user how to answer blocks of logical questions, first with feedback – and then on their own without any help. There is 30 seconds to answer each question. During training blocks we tell you whether or not your answer is correct. During test blocks you need to answer all of the questions on your own. Once you pass a test, you move on to the next level. You progress like this through the levels, collecting points as you go. You even get bonus points for revising stages you have passed before, because the more you revise the smarter your brain will get. The course should take between three to six months to complete.

Is SMART Brain Training for Kids and Adults the same?
The brain training methods in both SMART Kids and SMART Adult are the same. However the SMART brain training course for children has backgrounds and animated characters that make it a lot more fun learning experience for children and big kids.Regardless of whether you want to raise your IQ for school,business or personal development, the SMART brain training course should take between 3 and 6 months to complete.

What age group can benefit from SMART brain training?
At RaiseYourIQ we recommend that a person needs to have a mental age of at least 8 years of age to be able to engage fully with SMART brain training. There is no upper limit – older adults will benefit from the training, just as young people will. SMART brain training will help keep you at your peak mental performance, whatever your age or profession.

Is there a Brain Training Free Trial Option?
Yes. Our brain training free trial which includes a free assessment does not need any credit card details. Signing up could not be easier. Simply click on the “get started” button, fill in some details that we will ask you for, and that is it. Start raising your IQ today.Brain Training Free Trial


Brain Training Starters Guide - Frequently Asked Questions

Friday 11 July 2014

Free Brain Training Teasers

Download or view online these free brain training teasers. The quustions add up to a brain training free lesson that can help improve your IQ.





The team at RaiseYourIQ.com are truly passionate about improving the intelligence
levels of all people so these free brain training teasers are a great
introduction for kids or adults to challenging your brain to be smarter
and fitter. Download the brain training lesson below, it is completely
free, no email or sign up required and we hope these lessons will be
useful to teachers, parents, kids, adults, in fact anyone who cares to
reach their reaching their intellectual potential. The brain training
free lessons is a .pdf file containing a series of brain exercises that
you can do at home, while relaxing, in a classroom or maybe even as a
team building exercise!







To get started to improving your brain health, simply download the
lessons and print it off or view it on your mobile device. The lesson
consists of a series of scientifically developed brain-teasers that you
can try to solve wherever and whenever it suits. While this free brain
training should be fun, every teaser is scientifically designed to
improve your intelligence and we encourage you work on each one in
sequence and practice regularly in order to experience some IQ gains.


If you are interested in further improving your brain health and
fitness, you can get more brain training free lessons online, just sign
up for a free trial (again no credit card required) at raiseyouriq.com.
RaiseYourIQ is the only scientifically proven brain training course to raise your IQ by 20-30 points.



Download the lessons now and get your brain fitter with some free SMART brain training from RaiseYourIQ.com  Free Brain Traning

Wednesday 9 July 2014

Brain Training Questions From RaiseYourIQ

Brain Training Questions From RaiseYourIQ







Below are some train training questions from the RaiseYourIQ website.



Is brain training just for doing IQ tests?


No. Brain training is about giving you
the skills to learn better whether for school,business or
professionally. Nothing in the RaiseYourIQ brain training course looks
anything like a question on an IQ test, and we focus on training our
users in the relational skills they will need in order to think more
intelligently. However, our users experience dramatic IQ rises after
completing our SMART brain training course, because they are better able
to understand and answer complex logical questions of any type whether
for education,business or life learning.



How long does it take to complete the brain training course?


You should target to complete the brain
training course in a three to six month time-frame depending on your
schedule and progress. Think of our brain training program as you would
any education or skills improvement course. The RaiseYourIQ SMART brain
training course has been designed by our psychologists and educational
team as an educational skills program. RaiseYourIQ platform includes IQ
assessments,feedback and measuring your progress from start to finish.

SMART brain training teaches people how to learn.

We help our students to complete the course, improve their IQ levels
and bring this new found brain health into their everyday lives; be it
for work,school or self improvement. The first 15 stages are absolutely
free with no credit card required plus it also includes the free
assessment to check your current IQ level.
Click to start your Brain Training Free Trial




SMART brain training for intellectual improvement


The SMART brain training course teaches
core relational skills across modules that will improve the user's
skills in;- Using vocabulary
- Understanding word meaning
- Grasping basic and advanced logic
- Remembering information
- Using numbers for mathematics




Will I be learning maths or reading if I sign up for SMART?


No! SMART brain training is a problem
solving course involving a series of games – the problems are short and
logical. What SMART does is teach you how to learn and how to think
clearly and logically. We don’t actually teach you any information about
maths or anything else!. But SMART makes learning and understanding
everything much easier.




Can my gifted child benefit from SMART?


Gifted children often present with as
many difficulties as children with lower than average IQ's because
typical education systems are targeted at the average range individual.
So while a gifted child may already have a very high level of
intellectual skills, they may not be expert at organizing their
knowledge, at sequencing information or at sustaining attention for long
periods of time. Thus they may be able to provide accurate answers,
but they may not always be able to provide these answers quickly and
succinctly. SMART trains the user in a range of key intellectual skills
to a very high level of precision and speed, thus making even a gifted
child more fluent at responding to the challenges in their environment.




How can I contact RaiseYourIQ?


If you cannot find an answer to your
brain training questions the quickest way to get a response is the form
on the contact us page. Please note that we cannot answer questions
regarding individual psychological conditions or learning profiles or
offer any kind of psychological advice on line. Please consult your
local psychological services if you need guidance on learning
disabilities, require psychological assessments and to understand how
RaiseYourIQ could benefit. Contact RaiseYourIQ




Why increase my intelligence or IQ?


Intelligence is defined at the ability
to learn, understand and make judgments or have opinions that are based
on reason. Being intelligent means having the ability to acquire and use
knowledge for solving problems and adapting to the world. IQ is simply
the unit of measure for expressing the results of intelligence tests.
Specifically, IQ is the ratio of a subject’s mental age (as determined
by their performance on an intelligence scale) and chronological age.
There are many types of intelligence, but only standard IQ predicts your
success at school and in work. In fact people with higher IQ scores
complete more years in school and have higher status jobs. Recent
research has also found that people with higher IQs are also happier and
healthier. While you do not need to have a high IQ for its own sake,
improving your intellectual ability will help you deal more effectively
with school and work challenges, as well as make decisions and solve
everyday problems more easily.




Why do you ask profile questions?


It is very important that we ask our
customers to provide certain information that will help us to provide
the best possible training service. Remember, the SMART Brain Training
course is tailored to each user, so without your profile information we
cannot deliver the most effective training for you, and we cannot
improve our services and products for other users. You can alter your
profile at any stage by choosing from the drop down menu under the
Account link at the top of the RaiseYourIQ home page.




Is it really possible to increase intelligence?


We were once told that intelligence or
IQ was fixed for life. However, years of research by doctors and
psychologists has lead to the discovery of the importance of relational
skills to intelligence and it took several more years to by scientists
to figure out how best to teach these skills. Today we know that IQ can
in fact be increased by quite a degree. There have also been
considerable advances in neuroscience in recent years, that have led
psychologists to conclude that the brain itself can be made “fitter”
with training and can respond and adapt to improved learning
opportunities. Even leading authorities, such as Professor Robert
Sternberg, now agree that IQ can be raised.



 

Brain Training Questions - Frequently Asked Questions



Tuesday 8 July 2014

Brain Training Games for Kids

Brain training games can teach kids how to learn. However, the brain training games are only benifical if the content and material behind them actually helps the kids to learn more or raise their IQ.Today, a parent can find brain training courses delivered in schools and online  to help kids and students learn better and achieve more.


The RaiseYourIQ intellectual skills intervention is called SMARTtraining (Strengthening Mental Abilities with Relational Training). This scientific developed brain training is content free. A RaiseYourIQ course does not teachstudents content that they can use in a school examinations (e.g., math or histroy). What our online course DOES teach children is all the foundational reasoning skills crucial to vocabulary acquisition and mathematical reasoning in the brain. In effect, SMART training gives children and students the tools to learn and reason more effectively. Moreover RaiseYourIQ brain training bridges the deficits in these skills bases that not only cannot be taught at school efficiently without extensive one-to-one assistance, but can even help children to catch up to and even surpass the population average in intellectual ability. This is the springboard from which future learning then occurs in all of us.


RaiseYourIQ SMART training is based on Relational Training and all the course material has been developed in house by our own psychologists and education leaders who are well published in the field of education intervention.


Did you know that everyday, parents and teachers teach children relational skills routinely without even knowing it. For example, parents inadvertently teach young children the concept of “sameness” in normal language interaction. To be more specific, a parent will not just teach a child one word for a television set, they may in fact use two. On one occasion they may refer to it as the “tv” and on another as “the box”. The child will have to be explicitly told in the early years that given this information, “TV” and “box” refer to the same thing. Any confusion shown by the child is met with assurance from the parent that whenever two words are used for the same thing – those two words have the same meaning as each other. This is just one way in which a child learns to understand what “same” means and how “same” relations can be derived across multiple words and objects in logical ways. This in essence is a skill required for vocabulary expansion. If it were not for this skill, each and every word in the child’s vocabulary would have to be taught individually and related to each other word individually (imagine having to remember billions of individual learning tasks).

SMART brain training is a tool that can aid in every kids development because it removes barriers to education and the reaching of their potential. RaiseYourIQ leaves the supposed "maximum IQ" in the rear view mirror. Everyday we help not just of children with borderline and mild learning difficulties, but all children to learn reasoning skills and strengthen their mental abilities with relational training.

 For more information visit us at Scientifically Developed Intellectual Skills Training

Monday 23 June 2014

Train Your Brain For IQ Improvement

Train your brain to improve your IQ and general mental fitness. Brain training is now used in education,business and by clinicians to imrpve brain health and to raise IQ  levels. As acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) increases in popularity among clinicians, it becomes more and more vital to understand its theoretical basis, relational frame theory (RFT). RFT is a psychological theory of human language and cognition, developed by Steven C. Hayes. It focuses on how humans learn language and how language connects them to their environment. In essence, our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are dependent on our experiences and the context that these experiences provide.

The book " Advances in Relational Frame Theory" is edited by leading relational frame theory (RFT) scholars, Simon Dymond, PhD, and Bryan Roche, PhD who is also co-founder of RaiseYourIQ online brain training courses. Advances in Relational Frame Theory presents advances in all aspects of RFT research over the last decade, and provides a greater understanding of the core principals of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). The book also contains chapters written by Steven C. Hayes and Kelly Wilson, both research-active experts from the RFT community around the world.

Because ACT is focused largely on accepting one’s thoughts, it is important to understand where these thoughts come from. And while many books on RFT are abstract and require extensive knowledge of behavior analysis, this is the first book to comprehensively but accessibly introduce RFT to ACT mental health professionals.

Gaining a deeper knowledge of the relational concepts of RFT can help you understand why a person's behavior does not always match up with their self-professed values. Whether you are a mental health professional, or simply someone who is interested in the connection between language and experience, this book is an invaluable resource. For more information on Brain Training visit RaiseYourIQ.com.