Forgetfulness Project Post 3

          My 20 time project is about how and why we forget. Also it is about figuring out how the human memory system works. What I have learned about my topic so far are the types of memory, what causes us to forget, theories of forgetting, memory retrieval, and types of short-term memory experiments. The types of memory are sensory, short-term (working), and long-term memory. Some examples of what causes us to forget are retrieval failure from the long-term and failure of encoding the memory into the long-term. Some theories of forgetting are the decay theory, the interference theory, the retrieval failure theory, and the cue-dependent theory. Memory retrieval is when a memory is brought from long-term to the working memory.

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         What I have learned about myself is that I have expanded my knowledge about this topic a lot since the beginning of my 20 time project. Back then, I didn't know that there were so many things that go on in forming memory and how it all works. When I started this project, I thought I was going to learn only about how people forget, but that has led me to how memory overall works, and that has made me realize many things about myself, such as my memory patterns and what sticks in my mind and what doesn't. I have used this information to help me remember more things, such as for tests and projects.
          Some setbacks that I have had were learning the information and then applying it in the experiment. Also, I had trouble with analyzing the data from the experiment and relating that information with the information that I had researched. However, I was able to eventually see why both the experiment's information and the research's information matched or didn't match and I was able to make my review and relate process better. The next steps are to conduct a couple more experiments to broaden my data and information to produce more concise and developed findings. Next is to collect and analyze the data into a concise and easy to understand way to present, which will also give me the ability to compare and contrast the data collected. What I can apply this to in school is by understanding how my memory works and how to take advantage of that to help me remember information for tests, quizzes, project, etc.