The Consensus Is In On Brain Training, But The Jury Is Not

The mess that has been created by the over-eager marketing of the brain training industry has resulted in a general skepticism regarding any efforts to develop tools to increase general cognitive functioning, an effort that makes perfect theoretical and practical sense from a psychological science point of view. In other words, all efforts may now be painted with the same brush. The brain training industry has made a proverbial rod for their own back.

But there is one important point on which I and people in my field would strongly disagree with the
consensus group. The point of disagreement speaks loudly to the hope of developing powerful brain training methods that fulfill all of the criteria suggested by the consensus group. Specifically, the signatories appeal in their article to the long standing assumption that improvement in a single training task type cannot lead to increases in a broad skill. For example, training in a particular type of memory task cannot improve all of memory. Training in one type of motor movement
cannot improve all forms of motor movement. This has indeed been generally observed.
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ADHD and ADD Brain Training

Brain training is a proven therapy for ADHD and ADD. In a recent study,eight educationally  challenged children started the SMART brain training program with an average IQ of 82 (using the WISC IV), well below the average score of around 100. Following the intervention, these
IQs were moved on average to 96, well within the average IQ range.

Furthermore, in follow up tests SMART Brain training was proven to have a lasting effect on alleviating ADHD within this study group.We work with kids, parents, teachers and psychologists to deliver our brain training intervention skills either in a classroom, clinical or home setting.
Contact us for a free trial or any questions you may have.

ADHD and ADD Brain Training

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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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:
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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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Brain Training Starters Guide

Brain Training Starters Guide

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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.

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

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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


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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.



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Brain Training Questions From RaiseYourIQ

Brain Training Questions From RaiseYourIQ

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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.
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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