Thought. The impact of the internet on the memory

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Educational Institution of the Trade Unions of Higher Education
«Academy of Labour and Social Relations»
Thought
VIKTORIA TSURIKHINA,
a second year student
Moscow, 2020

2.

Agenda
• The impact of the internet on the memory
• Brain multitasking
• PLagiarism

3.

The impact of the internet on the memory
JUST GOOGLE IT
• People become more dependent on the Internet
How our brain have changed in recent times?

4.

First experiment
Task
Task
• People type unimportant
facts into a computer
Understood the
computer
would save the
information
Second experiment
Understood the
computer
wouldn’t save it
Remember the
information better
• People remember facts,
knowing where to find them
on the computer
Remember the folder
location better than the facts

5.

The result
• Using the internet develop stronger transactive memory
Transactive memory
People don’t remember the
information itself, they
remember where it is stored
• The way we use memory is changed

6.

Brain multitasking
• A person's ability to do more than one thing at a time
High-tech multitasking
Writing
an essay
Reading
messages
Listening
to music

7.

The experiment
The aim
Examine our brain from the inside using magnetic resonance
imaging(MRI)
The task
To give people two tasks requiring concentration to do at the same
time
The result
Our brain is not paying attention to 2 tasks simultaneously

8.

The result
• Wasting time
• Loosing speed and accuracy
• Can result in accident
we should control our desire to use
a wide variety of electronic media

9.

Plagiarism
• «The process or practice of using another person's ideas
or work and pretending that it is your own»
Dictionary.Cambridge.org
Includes:
1. Using another's production without crediting the source
2. Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
3. Paraphrasing or restructuring ideas without stating
where it comes from

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How to avoid Plagiarism
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5.
Cite your source
Don't procrastinate with your research and assignments
Don't take the "easy way" out
Paraphrase
Use plagiarism checker

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Conclusion
Internet has changed our life
Changed the way
we use our memory
Provide access to a huge
flow of information
Allow to
multitask
Developing stronger
transactive memory
Less focused and
accurate
More plagiarized works

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Contact details
VIKTORIA TSURIKHINA,
a second year student
AL&SR
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Email: [email protected]