How Further Internet Use accelerates Future Internet Use

The purpose of this experimentation is to assess the impact of how internet use to retrieve information influences how we access future information. Use of search engines such as Google to answer difficult questions results in an artificial dependence on internet usage to answer trivia questions which the subject should be able to answer. With easy accessibility to the internet subjects were potentially more likely to become cognitively dependent which may interfere with their future ability to independently process information. This dependence could decrease cognitive performance and productivity when the internet is not available. The current experiment is an extension of a previous study by Benjamin Storm et.al. This study was designed to see if the same results were true in a high school population. The initial hypothesis was that if high school students were given the choice of using the internet or their own memory to answer a set of questions, then the students would depend upon the internet instead of their memories to answer the trivia questions. However, the opposite appeared to be true because the null hypothesis was supported by the results of this study