Ted Talk By Joshua Foer

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In Joshua Foer’s TED Talk, “Feats of Memory Anyone Can Do”, Joshua demonstrates how strong memory is not just dominant in savants, but in all humans if they choose to teach themselves to remember (Foer, 2012). Foer continues by explaining the history of how memory is being used and how people would invest in their memories. With this came the idea of the memory palace and its place in increasing our abilities to change short term memory into long term memory. The way the memory palace works is by creating a fictional scenario that is happening in your home, hence the word palace. This fictional scenario is comprised of words and phrases that the person wants to remember. The crazier the scenario is, the more memorable these words and phrases become (Foer, 2012). When Joshua Foer was researching memory to provide his findings to the public as a journalist, he decided to undergo the education necessary to increase his recalling capability to enter a memory competition. When it was time for the competition, Foer was competing with professionals in …show more content…

For this experiment, I would use time as an independent variable and amount of words remembered by test subjects as the dependent variable. There would be a total of 20 test subjects for two tests, each within a same IQ range. Two groups of five will be tested on their ability to remember a list of ten words for a time period of one weak using the memory palace. As for the other two groups of five that are the control group, they will have the same ten word that they need to remember in one week but they will not be told about using the memory palace. The results would justify whether the memory palace works for all humans or just a some of

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