Cognitive-Sharing On The Internet
The article Cognitive offloading: How the internet is increasingly taking over human memory found in Science Daily talks about the use of Internet. Having availability to unlimited resources on the Internet makes us tempted to use it. Therefore, affecting our thought processes for problem solving, memory and learning. We often think that memory happens in the head but at this age and time it happens through the Internet and in one search away. Benjamin Storm, Sean Stone and Aaron Benjamin conducted an experiment if participants were tempted to use the computers when answering trivia questions. To do the experiment they divided two groups – one group use only their knowledge and memory while the other group used Google. The participants were
given a chance if followed by a difficult question to answer an easier question of their choice. The results revealed that the group who use the Internet were more likely to use the Internet even when the questionnaire was easy to answer. About 30% participants who utilize the Internet did not bother to answer the easy questionnaire from memory. From the original article, Science Daily did not get anything wrong every information seems accurate. The main importance and conclusion of the study is that when a person uses the Internet for fact-finding. The experiment prove that the person will undoubtedly repeat the behavior. The interesting thing about it is that the participants who use the Internet seems discourage to use their own thoughts since utilizing Google was faster. Additionally, the Internet is very vast meaning it holds millions and trillions of information compared to our own memory where it holds very limited information. Thus, we are reliant to use our smartphones and computers daily without recalling it from our memory. Memory seems to not be bothered whenever we use our devices.
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given a chance if followed by a difficult question to answer an easier question of their choice. The results revealed that the group who use the Internet were more likely to use the Internet even when the questionnaire was easy to answer. About 30% participants who utilize the Internet did not bother to answer the easy questionnaire from memory. From the original article, Science Daily did not get anything wrong every information seems accurate. The main importance and conclusion of the study is that when a person uses the Internet for fact-finding. The experiment prove that the person will undoubtedly repeat the behavior. The interesting thing about it is that the participants who use the Internet seems discourage to use their own thoughts since utilizing Google was faster. Additionally, the Internet is very vast meaning it holds millions and trillions of information compared to our own memory where it holds very limited information. Thus, we are reliant to use our smartphones and computers daily without recalling it from our memory. Memory seems to not be bothered whenever we use our devices.
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