The Google Effect, Digital Amnsia, Makes Humans Cognitive Miserly And Lazy To Remember

The Google effect makes people lazy to think. (photo: doc. pixabay)

JAKARTA – Digital amnesia, also known as the Google effect, has permeated many human brains all over the past decade.

Digital amnesia is the tendency to forget information that can be found easily, online using Google.

Reports have suggested that it affects our long term memory as well as our short term memory. There are even some studies that claim it also dampens our intelligence.

An October version of the report from Kaspersky Lab found that the majority of participants across Europe could not remember their children's phone numbers. This is because everything is stored on the phone.

In fact, half of people in the UK say they don't know their partner's phone number. This is a terrible fact today. Even though in the 90's, there are still many people who train their memory with the memory of numbers such as phone numbers that they have to remember, because they are necessary.

This Google effect creates an impact called Cognitive Miserly. It is a psychological term related to the performance of the brain.

Individuals described as cognitively miserly have an 'innate tendency to minimize their cognitive demands and avoid cognitive effort.

In other words, they minimize the amount of information they have to hold in their heads and avoid how much effort it takes to remember details.

This makes humans tend to be lazy to remember because everything is easily available at their fingertips.

So, let's try to reduce this cognitive miserly by remembering more things with our brain memory.