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Google effect

The Google effect, also called digital amnesia, is the tendency to forget information that can be found readily online by using Internet search engines. According to the first study about the Google effect, people are less likely to remember certain details they believe will be accessible online. However, the study also claims that people's ability to…

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Google effect

Nodes33
Edges32
Triples75
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.060606
Components1

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Google effect

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related to Cognitive consequences · 16
Google effect → Cikurel, Fisher, Follow-up, Further, Google, However, Kanbay, Lav, Outside, Research, Sparrow, Stone, Storm, The, This, Varshney
related to Replication · 13
Google effect → Additionally, Camerer, Gong, Google, In, Nature, Schooler, Science, Sparrow, Storm, The Google, These, Yang
has effect · 11
Google effect → Further, Gong, Google, However, North America, People, Research, Some, Western, Yang, Younger
related to Transactive memory · 10
Google effect → Google, However, In, Internet, Rather, Sparrow, The, Therefore, They, Unlike
related to Cultural evolution perspective · 8
Google effect → Anthropologist Joseph Henrich, From, Google, Henrich, Muthukrishna, Recent, Specifically, Thus
related to Cognitive Mechanism · 6
Google effect → Gilbert, Google, Researchers Risko, Sparrow, This, With
related to Practical implications · 6
Google effect → However, If, Research, Risko, The Google, This
is a · 1
Google effect → form of transactive memory

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information effect memory google also internet people remember study may cognitive recall colleagues research participants found computers saved knowledge use

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Google effectis aform of transactive memory0.90text
screeninstance ofand then perform a modified Stroop task involving both everyday words and technology-related words0.80text
Googleinstance ofand then perform a modified Stroop task involving both everyday words and technology-related words0.80text
telephone numbers that should have been familiarinstance ofpeople could not remember important information0.80text
leading to the conclusion that they forgot the information because of the ease of finding it using devicesinstance ofpeople could not remember important information0.80text
Google effecthas effectResearch0.60section
Google effecthas effectGoogle0.60section
Google effecthas effectGong0.60section
Google effecthas effectYang0.60section
Google effecthas effectPeople0.60section
Google effecthas effectFurther0.60section
Google effecthas effectNorth America0.60section

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