Forgetfulness Project Post 2

          The 20 time project that I am doing is about forgetfulness and how and why it happens, as shown on my previous blog post Forgetfulness Project Post 1. This post is a 2 week status update on how my project is going so far, which I think is going well so far. What I have done is researched information on how forgetting works and why it happens. How it works is that in short-term memory the brain can only keep around 5-9 items in its mind at a time, so it discards information that are not being used, which is also why it happens. Also, I have researched about experiments to do to test memory and forgetfulness. The experiments that I am leaning towards are short-term memory test because they are more simple to conduct and easier to gather more information about how the brain forgets, which I can then figure out why it happens.
          What I have learned about myself is that I forget a lot, whether it comes to school, activities, and work in general. Also, I forget many things that were in my short-term memory, such as my parents yelling at me to take out the trash. I have also learned about my time management skills and how they are affecting my work on this project and work. My time has been managed just enough to provide enough information and research on this topic in order to go ahead onto the next step of this project which is the making of the experiment.
          Some setbacks were my time management, the complexity of the information, and the many choices I have to make an experiment. The time management is affecting me by just allowing me to get the right amount of research into this project. Most of the experiments that I am finding in my research deal with long-term memory with many components that would take almost years to conduct, which I don't have. Also, the variety of experiments on short-term memory is great, which makes it hard to choose only one. Each experiment tests different parts of memory and forgetting, and I want an experiment that encompasses a big section of each part to conduct to make my experiment more efficient easier to quantify, and to keep track of. How I can apply this knowledge to myself, my school, and my community is by sharing my findings on this blog and raising the knowledge of people about a process that happens almost constantly in their brains.