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Does prolonged exposure to television affect a person’s memory? People are continually asked to memorize information for different purposes. Everyday people remember things they do not benefit from immediately but help them in the future. In today’s society television has a great impact on the viewers. In recent years many negative aspects of television has been discussed. Television has been linked to an increase in violence, and shorter retention spans, just to mention a few.

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

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Each group was given 15 minutes to memorize the list of words. They were placed in a room without a television set. This side is responsible for storing the information.

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Twenty high school students with ages ranging from 13 to 18 years old participated in this experiment. After the 10 minutes were over both groups were tested again. After watching television, a person’s attention level is lower therefore causing a person to have a harder time concentrating on given piece of information. Group “B” was the experimental group. They were placed in a room with a television set.

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. Ten words were chosen at random from a Webster’s dictionary and thesaurus.

Group “B” then started watching television for a period of ten minutes. th a distraction that television adds to our surroundings it’s harder to remember any given information. In a resting stage group “A” waited in the room with out television till the resting time was up, while group “B” watched television during the resting time.

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Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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