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Cognitive extension - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Participants were asked to type 40 trivia facts into the computer.
        
        Some of the facts were expected to represent new knowledge whilst other facts were more likely to be already known to the participants.
        
        Half of the participants were told that the computer would store everything they typed for later reference while the other half were told the information would be erased.
      - Prediction
        
        That we invest less effort in committing information to memory if we believe we can simply retrieve the information from an external memory store such as Google at a later date
- - - - Task switching
  - - - Change through contents and information quickly
- - - - However, regarding its impacts on memory, it is mostly negative. This is because there are more studies that can prove this.
        
        Example: Sparrow at al study