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- Individuals use cognitive offloading, relying on external aids for memory, but may not do so effectively, leading to biases in how they use internal and external resources.
- A study tested this bias in primary and secondary school students using a word-pair memory task, finding that younger students depended more on their internal memory while older students relied too heavily on external reminders.
- The research also showed that primary school students' cognitive offloading bias was connected to how accurately they monitored their own thinking processes (metacognition).
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Individuals often use external aids to assist with information storage, a process known as cognitive offloading. Prior research has indicated that adults sometimes fail to utilize internal and external cognitive resources judiciously, resulting in cognitive offloading bias, which is often linked to metacognition. However, it remains experimentally unverified whether primary and secondary school students exhibit cognitive offloading bias and how this relates to metacognition. This study aimed to address these gaps. In Experiment 1, we examined cognitive offloading bias in primary and secondary school students (aged 7-15 years) using a word-pair memory task. The results revealed that primary school students tended to rely excessively on internal memory in comparison to the optimal strategy, while secondary school students leaned towards an overreliance on external reminders. In Experiment 2, we incorporated metacognitive judgements to explore the relationship between metacognition and cognitive offloading bias. Results indicated that the cognitive offloading bias observed in primary school students was linked to the accuracy of their metacognitive monitoring.
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