According to Marvin Minsky (http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~rcp/metaphor.html) a well know psychologist, "Things we deal with in practical life are usually too complicated to be represented by neat, compact expressions." The society of mind therefore, wi

Twenty high school students with ages ranging from 13 to 18 years old participated in this experiment. The experiment was conducted by using a standard Sony 24 inch television set. Ten words were chosen at random from a Webster's dictionary and thesaurus. The participants were given these ten words to memorize, which is shown in appendix 1.

th a distraction that television adds to our surroundings it's harder to remember any given information. Professor Angela Royton, believes memory is a process in which the entire left side of the brain is involved. This side is responsible for storing the information. All parts of the brain are required for comprehension and storage of memory. The Encyclopedia of Mental Health states, "...When the perso

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