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There are people who can quickly memorize lists of thousands of numbers, the order of all the cards in a deck (or ten!), and much more. Science writer Joshua Foer describes the technique - called the memory palace - and shows off its most remarkable feature: anyone can learn how to use it, including him

Learn about famous psychologists and explore different types of psychology, including behavioral, cognitive, and clinical, through this Education Portal course. Designed to prepare you to earn real college credit by passing the Psychology CLEP and Psychology Excelsior exams, this course features video lessons ranging in topic from the importance of psychology to operant conditioning and from memory distortion to reasons we sleep and dream. Our psychology instructors are experienced and knowledgeable educators, and they've designed the videos for this course to be brief yet comprehensive and entertaining. You'll also have access to self-assessment quizzes, which will allow you to gauge how much you've learned.