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Use your critical thinking skills and recent knowledge of psychological science to establish an experiment. How would you test these claims?

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Q • Choose one of one of the three claims provided below: 1. “Improve your memory in just 20 minutes 2. “Get all the benefits of a complete workout in 8 minutes a day” 3. “One drop of whizzo cleans your entire house.” • Use your critical thinking skills and recent knowledge of psychological science to establish an experiment. How would you test these claims? • Be sure to include the following: 1. a testable hypothesis 2. operational definitions 3. clearly defined research groups 4. an objective measure to gauge improvement. • Credit will be deducted if you don’t include the information listed above

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Improving one’s memory in just 20 minutes is just a matter of brain exercise. One’s memory could be improved if one spends 20 minutes a day by doing meditation. Mediation helps in stimulating oxygen supply in brain and due to this, one’s overall memory gets improved. In addition to that, it could further be stated that 20 minutes meditation also helps in improving brain functions and also improving capacity of brain in responding to a situation in a prompt manner. Therefore, what would be most important in this context is to identify the nature of meditation and brain exercise, that could help in improving one’s working memory.