GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
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Question
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Technology influences our ability to pay attention, thus, reducing our memory
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Technology causes us to offload our memory into a transactive storage which the participants accessed in the study, increasing memory
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Technology causes us to have the expectation of offloading memory, decreasing our own ability for memory
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Wasting too much unnecessary time on technology means our brains become less efficient in processing information
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sparrow et al. (2011) showed that individuals were worse at recalling information that had been stored in external memory than information that had not been stored on the computer.
Detailed explanation-2: -Even though technology may not affect the actual information that we receive, it does affect how we perceive it and store it on our memory. Technology decreases the strength of the memory and how well we will be able to retain that information from our brain. So yes, technology strongly affects our memory.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sparrow et al.’s simple study shows that when we do not need to rely on our own memories to store information because we know the information will be stored elsewhere then this will reduce our memory of that information.
Detailed explanation-4: -In a way, the internet has become the brain’s external hard drive. Our brain has changed to prioritise how to access information, not remembering the actual content. In an age where we are bombarded with more information than ever before on a daily basis, this isn’t really a surprising phenomenon.