Storm Benjamin C, Stone Sean M, Benjamin Aaron S
a Department of Psychology , University of California , Santa Cruz , CA , USA.
b Department of Psychology , University of Illinois , Urbana Champaign , IL , USA.
Memory. 2017 Jul;25(6):717-723. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2016.1210171. Epub 2016 Jul 18.
The ways in which people learn, remember, and solve problems have all been impacted by the Internet. The present research explored how people become primed to use the Internet as a form of cognitive offloading. In three experiments, we show that using the Internet to retrieve information alters a person's propensity to use the Internet to retrieve other information. Specifically, participants who used Google to answer an initial set of difficult trivia questions were more likely to decide to use Google when answering a new set of relatively easy trivia questions than were participants who answered the initial questions from memory. These results suggest that relying on the Internet to access information makes one more likely to rely on the Internet to access other information.
人们学习、记忆和解决问题的方式都受到了互联网的影响。本研究探讨了人们如何被引导将互联网用作一种认知卸载的形式。在三项实验中，我们表明，使用互联网检索信息会改变一个人使用互联网检索其他信息的倾向。具体而言，与那些凭记忆回答初始问题的参与者相比，使用谷歌回答初始一组困难琐事问题的参与者在回答一组新的相对简单的琐事问题时，更有可能决定使用谷歌。这些结果表明，依赖互联网获取信息会使人更有可能依赖互联网获取其他信息。
