title: Reconsidering the “Google effect”: Reduced productivity in externalized information recognition is expedient
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metadata.value: Vzorin, Gleb D.
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metadata.value: Bukinich, Alexey M.
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metadata.value: Nourkova, Veronika V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-12-17T13:43:56Z
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metadata.value: 2024-12-17T13:43:56Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2024-09
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metadata.value: Vzorin G. D., Bukinich A. M., Nourkova V. V. Reconsidering the “Google effect”: Reduced productivity in externalized information recognition is expedient. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology, 2024, vol. 14, issue 3, pp. 498–515. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu16.2024.306 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu16.2024.306
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/48154
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metadata.value: The decrease in an ability to independently recall information when it is externalized (e. g.,
  stored on digital devices), also known as the “Google effect”, has become a subject of empirical
  investigation and a growing concern regarding the Internet’s negative impact on cognition.
  Several studies have questioned the reproducibility of this effect; however, recent work has
  replicated it under conditions where participants were confident in the reliability of subsequent
  access to the information, or in other words, in their ability to use the information in
  future activities. The findings of this study suggest that the mnemonic “Google effect” may be
  expedient, meaning that the reduction in recall of information stored on an external source
  does not occur “automatically”, as previously thought, but in accordance with an individual’s
  current purposeful and holistic activity. To test this hypothesis, we conducted an empirical
  study (N = 69, Me = 20 years) that simulated the work of detective, who assisted the police
  in investigating crimes. Initially, participants were presented with graphic stimuli (“clues”),
  with instructions based on a narrative explaining what action to take with each (delete, save, scroll through) and how much the material would be needed later (remember the clue, do
  not remember, or no clear objective). One week later, there was a memory test that involved
  recognizing and selecting stimuli from the first part, as part of the investigative activity in a
  detective story. Significantly, clues that needed to be remembered and deleted were recognized
  more often compared to those that needed to be remembered and saved or skipped. Meanwhile,
  clues that did not need to be remembered were recognized at the same level regardless
  of the action taken, significantly better than guess level. Thus, the mnemonic “Google effect”
  was reproduced, but only under conditions where the externalization of information was purposeful.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: Research was funded by state assignment no. 0138-2024-0005.
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metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Psychology;Volume 14; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: “Google-effect”
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metadata.value: digital amnesia
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metadata.value: cognitive externalization
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cognitive offloading
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metadata.value: cognitive gadgets
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metadata.value: Reconsidering the “Google effect”: Reduced productivity in externalized information recognition is expedient
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metadata.value: Article
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