IB Psychology HL - Digital Technology

IB Psychology Cognitive Approach HL extension - digital technology

Availability heuristic

A factor in the way our use of social media influences our thinking

Digital Technology

Electronic tools, systems, devices and resources that generate, store or process data. Well known examples include social-media, online games, multimedia and mobile phones

Google effect

It is also called digital amnesia; it is the tendency to forget information that can be found readily online by using internet search engines

Negative cognitive bias

A tendency to compare themselves negatively to others, thereby reducing their self-esteem and potentially impacting their mood

Social Comparison Theory

Festinger,1954 postulates that there is a drive within individuals to have accurate self-evaluations. We determine our own social and personal worth based on how we compare to others. People compare their experiences to that of those around them as a way to work out what kind of person they are (self-concept) and how they should judge themselves (self-esteem). We might compare our feelings, experiences, abilities, and situation with those of our friends as a way to judge our own value and place in the world

Transactive memory

It includes knowledge of where information can be found and how to access it. Collaboration between group members may also be essential to the retrieval of essential information. We often see this type of memory in relationships

Upward comparisons

Comparisons where we deem the experience, behaviour and characteristics of others to be preferable to or better than our own