The Memory Test

AMPS Psychology Students,

The study of the memory and how information is stored is a major topic within psychology. Our short term, long term, and sensory memory have a significant affect on our daily lives. Thus, let us explore the confines of our personal memories.

Objective:
Discover the unique abilities of your memory.

Hypothesis: What type of Memory do you have?

Procedure:
Select and complete one of the following Memory Tests
1. Psychology World: Goldfish
or
2. Human Benchmark: Memory Test

Analysis & Conclusion: Take a picture or print out your results.
Answer the following questions:
1. Was your memory as good as your hypothesis suggested?
2. What did you learn about your memory?
3. What can you do to improve your memory and is it possible to improve your memory?

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Inside the Mind of Hollywood: A Psychoanalysis of Marvel's Avengers

In, Psychopathology of Everyday Life (Freud 1901), Sigmund Freud describes the evidence and unconscious meaning behind everyday verbal cues and actions. In his theory, a Freudian Slip is a "Slip of the tongue," or an individual's error in speech and action, usually attributed to an unconscious desire. Like, calling a spouse by an ex name, or  yelling at someone, who has nothing to do with your source of anger. If, we can attribute an individual's actions and thoughts to their "unconscious" desires and memories, then surely, we can apply the same logic to the public, at large. We can attribute an entire culture or nation's behavior and actions to their unconscious beliefs, feelings, and experiences. An even larger experiment in psychoanalysis can be applied to major Hollywood Blockbuster Hits like James Cameron's Avator (2009), Wachowski's The Matrix (1999-2003), and particularly for this writings' expos'e, Marvel's Avengers. Marvel's Avengers (Avengers 2012 & Age of Ultron 2015) has grossed well over $1.1 billion dollars in ticket sales. There isn't a better movie to be analyzed to uncover the innermost thoughts, feelings, beliefs and desires of an entire nation and culture? These movies and their written scripts not only disclose the unconscious minds of its writers, but the surrounding culture and society, which permits these mega productions for cultural exchange of ideas and feelings of "timeless" grandeur & glory. In this writing series, we will go inside the mind of Hollywood and uncover the hidden meanings and interpretations, of one of its most successful hits to date, Marvel's The Avengers.

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