Cyber Psych Flashcards
Define cyber psychology
Exploring and understanding the impact of being ‘online’
What are the 2 underlying components of the word ‘cyber’?
• comes from the area of cybernetics and explores human control functions and mechanical/electronic systems designed to replace them
Define transactive memory
Collective memory of the social group
Sparrow, Liu + Wegner 2011- Search engines and transactive memory
Demonstrated that Google now represents part of our transactive memory. We no longer remember the info but the location of the info
Johnson + Johnson 2008 - the link between improvement and certain cognitive skills involving the internet
Found differences in reasoning skills for frequent and infrequent internet users
What researcher found that frequent users demonstrated a difference in aspects of non-verbal reasoning?
Subrahmanyam 2001
What is form of reasoning?
Manipulating problem space using visual mechanisms e.g. size, shape
Kirschner & karpinski 2010- Social Networking Sites
Found a detrimental link between academic achievement and frequent SNS users
Frequent SNS users:
• spend significantly less time studying and reported poorer time management skills
Facebook is used as a tool for…
Procrastination
Junco 2013- social monitoring and GPA scores
Found that students who engaged in aspects of social monitoring had higher GPA scores vs. Active status posters and instant chat messengers
Alloway, Horton, Alloway + Dawson 2013 - SNS and cognition
• Found a significant difference in scores on measures of working memory, verbal ability and spelling in pp who used FB for more than a year
Paschler 1994- Digital tech and academic performance
•existing research on multi tasking and poor at attending to multiple inputs/ performing simultaneous tasks
Who/what are the 4 studies & researchers on the cost of multitasking within the educational context?
Junco + Cotton 2011 - effect of instant messaging whilst studying found a detrimental impact on work
Wood et al 2012- use of FB during lectures yielded lower scores on tests of lecture material (Vs. Pen and paper notes)
Rosen et al 2011- text message interruptions during lectures performed worse on post-lecture test of content
Hembrook + Gay 2003- 2 groups of students [One group with access to a laptop & the other W/o]. Those with laptop performed worse on post- lecture test of information
Who did the study on access to lecture slides?
Weatheily, Grabe + Arthur 2003
• those with access to Bb performed poorer on exams
Outline the study on ‘Banner Blindness’ by Benway 1999
The website was designed to provide info to employees being asked go sign up for training courses. The numbers were low bc the employees wanted to sign up but couldn’t find the relevant link.
- the relevant link was at the top of the screen and was a colourful banner
- demonstrated that even in the confines of internet that attention can be affected
What position did Simonla et al 2012 suggest is optimal for adverts to be more noticed?
Right
= more attention and disruption of proof reading
