1. Effects of Internet Use, Gaming, orTexting on Your Childs CognitiveProcessesPresented in Support of Media UsebyChristina Friis -- MSPP 2. Steven Johnson: Everything Bad isGood For You for decades, weve worked under theassumption that mass culture follows asteadily declining path toward lowest-common-denominator standards, presumablybecause the masses want dumb, simplepleasures and big media companies want togive the masses what they want. But in fact,the exact opposite is happening: the culture isgetting more intellectually demanding, notless (2006, p. 9). 3. But my kids would rather play videogames than read books! Andrew Solomon, NY Times: those who readare many times more likely to visitmuseums attend musical performancesperform volunteer and charity work whilenon-readers more than half the population have settled into apathy (The Closing of theAmerican Book, 2004). 4. Cognitive processes dont stop oncethe controller is put down the clearest measure of the cognitivechallenges posted by modern games is thesheer size of the cottage industry devoted topublishing game guides, sometimes calledwalk-throughs, that give you detailed, step-by-step explanations of how to complete thegame (Johnson, Everything Bad is Good ForYou, 2006, p. 28). 5. Of course, the industrial taxhttp://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/p480x480/644281_10151554572819866_77938503_n.jpg 6. Hold on, Ill Google it The results of four studies suggest that whenfaced with difficult questions, people are primedto think about computers and that when peopleexpect to have future access to information, theyhave lower rates of recall of the information itselfand enhanced recall instead for where to accessit (Sparrow, et al, 2011, p. 1). From Google Effects on Memory: CognitiveConsequences of Having Information at OurFingertips. 7. I just cant quit you, Google. It may be no more than nostalgia, at this point,to wish we were less dependent on our gadgets.The experience of losing our internet connectionbecomes more and more like losing a friend. Wemust remain plugged in to know what Googleknows (Sparrow, et al, 2011, p. 4). From Google Effects on Memory: CognitiveConsequences of Having Information at OurFingertips. 8. Attention and Multi-tasking and Eatingand Drinking and Talking and Walking Attention is the taking into possession ofthe mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out ofwhat seem several simultaneously possibleobjects or trains of thought.Focalisation, concentration, of consciousnessare of its essence William James (Eysenck, 2010, p. 153). 9. Divided is our attention, united is our mindhttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XBLJ3QFIXjE/TJzykKao0RI/AAAAAAAAA-8/1AvqkrBYk-8/s1600/pat+your+head.jpg 10. Draw me a map Visuo-spatial sketchpad: a component ofworking memory (short-term memory storeincluding attention, speech-basedinformation, visual information, andtemporary storage) that is involved in visualand spatial processing of information(Eysenck, 2010, p. 211-212). 11. References Eysenck, M., & Keane, M. (2010). CognitivePsychology: A Students Handbook, 6thEdition. N.Y.: Psychology Press. Johnson, S. (2006). Everything bad is good foryou. New York, NY: Riverhead Books. Soloman, A. (2004). The closing of the AmericanBook. The New York Times. Sparrow, Betsy (2011) Google effects onmemory: Cognitive consequences of havinginformation at our fingertips. Science, 333,1-6.