
S2E17: Saskia Giebl on the Bjork Lab and Googling for Learning
Progressively Incorrect
What Are the Conditions of Googling Right Away?
Research has shown that thinking before Googling will lead you to better memory retention of the Google information than Googling right away. So we did see that overall questions that have been thought of or tried to attempt it to be answered before consulting Google were much better remembered later on during a final test. But at the same time, we also sometimes know how people Google and just serving some internet users for our new study that we're currently running, we do overwhelmingly get internet users to say like, no. I'm definitely not engaging in any kind of thinking. If I have a question, I just ask Google right away. A lot of the answers were, no, I would just want
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