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ERIC Number: EJ1383847
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 19
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0888-4080
EISSN: EISSN-1099-0720
Strategic Offloading: How the Value of To-Be-Remembered Information Influences Offloading Decision-Making
Murphy, Dillon H.
Applied Cognitive Psychology, v37 n4 p749-767 Jul-Aug 2023
We examined potentially selective offloading decisions when the external store has a limited capacity and how the surprising unavailability of offloaded information influences subsequent offloading decision-making and memory. In three experiments, learners were presented with to-be-remembered words paired with point values counting towards their scores if recalled and were allowed to offload some words. Experiment 1 included only positively valued words, Experiment 2 included some negatively valued words, and Experiment 3 included only positively valued words but some extremely high-value words. Learners selectively offloaded high-value words (an ideal strategy if the external store is more reliable than memory) but were also selective in their memory for not-offloaded words. However, when offloaded words were surprisingly unavailable, learners frequently forgot high-value words, illustrating the potential dangers of offloading. Thus, offloading decisions should depend on the reliability of the external store, memory abilities, and the variability of the value of to-be-remembered information.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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