For my 20 Time project, I asked the question, “Does impairing senses help memory retainment and memorization?” I wanted to do something that would help our students from our school as well as challenge me to go out of my comfort level. To challenge myself, I approached people I didn’t know very well and asked them to be a part of my experiment. I chose people from our class, other classes, and people not in Mr. Orre’s class at all. This challenged me because I am usually a very shy person around people I don’t know, but I tried to widen my horizons and guide them through my experiment.
To try to achieve my goal, I made 3 different experiments impairing different senses and with just my partner and I, and then retested those tests to check the reliability. I won’t go into too much detail about the experiments, but the three senses we impaired were sight, hearing, and smell. You can learn more about each experiment here. The thing I really liked about our project was not the actual experiment or results, but the process and learning on how to do these experiments. I got experiments with surveys and experiments, which I suspect would be priceless in the near future.
To say our project was a success is incorrect, but to say it was a failure is also incorrect. I would say that we are just getting started on the research for this, and I would love to work with this in the future. We did get some results to indicate us to the closer conclusion, but we did not take into account a lot of situational factors, like how the subject’s day was going or their intelligence. Maybe next time, I would be a little more organized with the experiment and maybe test with more than 2 subjects. A new challenge will not be only to find out if impairing senses help, but also why they help. I wonder what goes on in the brain during these processes. Again, I would love to continue with this experiment and maybe come up with a better justified conclusion.
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