From metacognitive beliefs to strategy selection: does fake performance feedback influence cognitive offloading?
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From metacognitive beliefs to strategy selection: does fake performance feedback influence cognitive offloading? Sandra Grinschgl1 · Hauke S. Meyerhoff2 · Stephan Schwan2 · Frank Papenmeier1 Received: 6 April 2020 / Accepted: 8 October 2020 © The Author(s) 2020
Abstract The ubiquitous availability of technological aids requires individuals to constantly decide between either externalizing cognitive processes into these aids (i.e. cognitive offloading) or relying on their own internal cognitive resources. With the present research, we investigated the influence of metacognitive beliefs on individuals’ offloading behavior in an experimental setup (N = 159). We manipulated participants’ metacognitive beliefs about their memory abilities by providing fake performance feedback: below-average feedback, above-average feedback, or no feedback (control-group). We then measured offloading behavior, using a pattern copying task in which participants copied a color pattern from a model window into a workspace window. While solving this task, participants could rely either more on an internal memory strategy or more on an offloading strategy. Fake performance feedback affected the participants’ metacognitive evaluations about their memory abilities (below-group
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