How Further Internet Use accelerates Future Internet Use
School Name
Heathwood Hall
Grade Level
10th Grade
Presentation Topic
Psychology and Sociology
Presentation Type
Non-Mentored
Abstract
The purpose of this experimentation is to assess the impact of how internet use to retrieve information influences how we access future information. Use of search engines such as Google to answer difficult questions results in an artificial dependence on internet usage to answer trivia questions which the subject should be able to answer. With easy accessibility to the internet subjects were potentially more likely to become cognitively dependent which may interfere with their future ability to independently process information. This dependence could decrease cognitive performance and productivity when the internet is not available. The current experiment is an extension of a previous study by Benjamin Storm et.al. This study was designed to see if the same results were true in a high school population. The initial hypothesis was that if high school students were given the choice of using the internet or their own memory to answer a set of questions, then the students would depend upon the internet instead of their memories to answer the trivia questions. However, the opposite appeared to be true because the null hypothesis was supported by the results of this study.
Recommended Citation
Feldman, Ben, "How Further Internet Use accelerates Future Internet Use" (2017). South Carolina Junior Academy of Science. 243.
https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/scjas/2017/all/243
Location
Wall 308
Start Date
3-25-2017 11:15 AM
Presentation Format
Oral and Written
Group Project
No
How Further Internet Use accelerates Future Internet Use
Wall 308
The purpose of this experimentation is to assess the impact of how internet use to retrieve information influences how we access future information. Use of search engines such as Google to answer difficult questions results in an artificial dependence on internet usage to answer trivia questions which the subject should be able to answer. With easy accessibility to the internet subjects were potentially more likely to become cognitively dependent which may interfere with their future ability to independently process information. This dependence could decrease cognitive performance and productivity when the internet is not available. The current experiment is an extension of a previous study by Benjamin Storm et.al. This study was designed to see if the same results were true in a high school population. The initial hypothesis was that if high school students were given the choice of using the internet or their own memory to answer a set of questions, then the students would depend upon the internet instead of their memories to answer the trivia questions. However, the opposite appeared to be true because the null hypothesis was supported by the results of this study.
