Is the internet Ruining Your Memory

Is the internet Ruining Your Memory

1. What Socrates thought about the new technology at those times.

   • Socrates warned that new technology was becoming a crutch, with a negative impact on his student
     • Also, he said the most he disliked of the new technology was writing, because the great orators of his time delivered memorized speeches without notes, he saw that this the tradition was being lost and in turn the mental faculties

2. Google Effect

   • According to the Harward University "google effect" exposed to detailed, trivial information were more likely to forget it if told they could look it up online later. And also tended to include the Internet among their own cognitive tools.

3. Sparrow's team finding about the exposure to detailed and trivial information

   • The subject exposed to detailed, trivial information were more likely to forget it if told they could look it up online later. Subjects also tended to include the Internet among their own cognitive tools. It was as if the computer ware part o their intellectual abilities. Sparrow concluded, the Internet has become a central player in our "transaction memory"

4. What is transactive memory?

   • Transactive memory refers sharing of information retention among persons- or in this case, digital network -in a group.

5. Sparrow's conclusion regarding Google.

   • Sparrow's conclusion about Google is "In short, Google has become everyone's brainy friend, the "walking encyclopedia"

6. Mention Google's significant flaws

   • The first is the questionable validity of the assumption that forgetting something because we can google it later is any different from forgetting a phone number immediately after writing it dowm.
     • The same study showed frequent Internet users were adept at remembering where to find the information, if not the information itself

7. What cognitive neuroscience has revealed about the Internet?

   • Cognitive neuroscience has revealed no such data

8. What is plasticity?

   • Plasticity or changeability refers to the ability to alter memories every time we access them.
     • How plasticity affects the human brain?
       • This can affect the brain because every time we access our memory we can lose things that are easy to remember.