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Googling To Forget: The Cognitive Processing Of Internet Search, Elizabeth T. Friede
Googling To Forget: The Cognitive Processing Of Internet Search, Elizabeth T. Friede
CMC Senior Theses
Technology is currently extremely integrated with everyday life. Popular media has made bold claims that the internet is making us “dumber” and people struggle to remember information more now than they ever have in the past. Scientific research on the effect of internet search on cognition and memory is still in its infancy. This research will analyze the literature and theories discussing memory and the internet. Based on an original experiment by Sparrow, Liu, and Wegner. 20 participants (10 young adults and 10 older adults) performed a typing task with twenty trivia statements, followed by a recall and recognition memory …