20 Time Final Post

          My 20 Time project was about memory and this blog post will bring some closure and showcase my final product. This is also a chance to evaluate myself and what I did during this process. What I did in my 20 Time project was solve a question about memory which was "how and why do we forget?" I devised an experiment to test this question using two test subjects and a deck of 30 cards with matching pairs. Then, I made my test subjects play concentration to test how well they remember where each card is exactly. I recorded when they got a pair and when they didn't and I recorded where they picked the cards and why. After, I interviewed my test subjects to see what they thought of it and what they experienced.
          My final product of this project was the data and conclusions that I have produced from my experiment. The data is in the following table.

Turns:

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

Person 1

NP

NP

NP

NP

P

P

NP

NP

NP

NP

NP

NP

P

NP

NP

P

NP

Person 2

NP

NP

NP

P

NP

NP

NP

NP

P

NP

NP

P

P

NP

NP

NP

P

Turns:	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
Person 1	NP	P	P	NP	NP	P	P	P
Person 2	NP	NP	NP	NP	P	NP	NP	NP

Key: NP = no pair, P = pair

The conclusions that I have drawn from this is that over time, the short-term memory starts to decay and memories get forgotten easily and that the short-term memory can only hold around 5-9 items at a time.

This table shows the turns that each person took and whether they got a pair or not. It took 25 turns and person 1 won with 9 pairs while person 2 lost with 6 pairs. 

          In Forgetfulness Blog Post 1, I had set my goals for what I want to do in this project, however, I was very unsure about what to do or where to start for my project. By the time of Forgetfulness Blog Post 2, I was sure about what to do, but the problem was how to go about doing what I wanted. By the time of Forgetfulness Blog Post 3, I was completely sure about what I was going to do, how I was going to do it, and why I was going to do it. Some more evidence of what I did are in these google docs: 20 Time Experiment and 20 Time Research. How I would evaluate myself is by going through all of my work and seeing how well I have done everything up until now. I feel that my effort throughout this project, whether it be research, the experiment, or everything in between, has been my best effort. I have produced something that has satisfied my curiosity in this area and I have sacrificed a lot of time towards this project, and for all of those reasons, I believe I deserve an A