认知负载转移中成本与收益的权衡

Trade-off Between Cost and Benefit in Cognitive Offloading

认知负载转移是指为了降低自身的认知负荷,个体使用外部媒介来改变任务的信息加工过程的一种策略(如设置手机提醒)。研究发现,个体对认知负载转移成本与收益的权衡是不理性的,表现为人们更愿意选择进行认知负载转移。这可能是因为人们错误地估计了自己的记忆能力,提高个体的元认知监测能力可以优化个体的认知负载转移过程。未来研究应深入揭示人们偏好于进行认知负载转移的原因,并形成能促使人们最佳进行认知负载转移的系统化方案。

Cognitive offloading is the use of physical action to alter the information processing requirements of a task so as to reduce cognitive demand. Previous studies have shown that people have an irrational tendency to offload,which may be due to the wrong metacognitive beliefs about themselves or external tools and etc. It may be useful to interfere with the individual’s metacognitive to optimize cognitive offloading decision-making behavior. Future studies shall make more efforts to explore the causes of the excessive use of cognitive offloading and develop systemic interventions to promote individual using cognitive offloading optimally.