Internet is changing our memory
Internet is changing our memory - gap filling feladat
A multiple choice test about how our memory has changed.
Internet is changing our memory
New research suggests the Internet is changing our memory. Researchers from Colombia University (1) ____ people with different questions and found many began to think of computers. (2) ____ researcher Dr Betsy Sparrow said that when test participants knew the answers would (3) ____ available on a computer, they did less well on the memory tests. She said we use the Internet as a new “transactive memory”. We rely (4) ____ this to do the remembering for us. It’s similar to our personal data being backed up on a hard disk. The Internet acts (5) ____ a huge storage device for all the world’s knowledge, that is there when we need it. Dr Sparrow said computers were not making us less (6) ____. “I don’t think Google is making us stupid. We’re just changing the way that we’re remembering things,” she said.
Dr Sparrow believes we are becoming very good at remembering where we keep information in different (7) ____ on our computers. She said: „This suggests that for the things we can find online, we tend (8) ____ keep it online as far as memory (9) ____ concerned – we keep it externally stored.” She explained that because we are remembering the location of the information, (10) ____ than the information itself, we are becoming better at organising huge quantities of data and facts in a more (11) ____ way. She also said the way we use technology is changing our need to remember things, saying: “If you can find stuff online even while you’re walking down the street (12) ____ days, then the skill to have, the thing to remember is where to go to find the information.”
Find the correct words.
| 1. | (a) | presenter | (b) | presenters | (c) | presentation | (d) | presented |
| 2. | (a) | iron | (b) | steel | (c) | lead | (d) | leader |
| 3. | (a) | have | (b) | be | (c) | do | (d) | give |
| 4. | (a) | on | (b) | in | (c) | to | (d) | at |
| 5. | (a) | was | (b) | has | (c) | as | (d) | is |
| 6. | (a) | normal | (b) | stupid | (c) | average | (d) | intelligent |
| 7. | (a) | files | (b) | folders | (c) | documents | (d) | pdfs |
| 8. | (a) | to | (b) | for | (c) | from | (d) | at |
| 9. | (a) | be | (b) | is | (c) | are | (d) | been |
| 10. | (a) | prefer | (b) | instead | (c) | rather | (d) | not |
| 11. | (a) | accessible | (b) | access | (c) | accessing | (d) | accesses |
| 12. | (a) | they | (b) | them | (c) | those | (d) | these |
