Children’s Selective Trust And Memory Of Information Retrieved By Cellphones

Children aged 10-12 are just separated from their parents and begin to use the Internet independently.They are vulnerable to trust inaccurate information on the Internet due to lack of experience in using the Internet.When faced with mixed information sources on the Internet,what clues will children use to make inferences and judgments about the information sources and the information they provide? Will children remember the information they selectively trust on the Internet? The exploration of these questions is of great significance for answering the role of children’s network selective trust in their cognitive development.The purpose of this study is to explore how children aged 10-12 years old make trust decisions and remember information provided by the network based on the accuracy and order of information presentation during the Internet information retrieval using the selective trust conflict information source paradigm.A total of 328 children aged 10-12 from a primary school in Nanchang were selected for the study.Experiment 1 explored the effect of the order of web page information presentation(on top,on bottom)on the selective trust of children aged 10-12 years old in the network;The second experiment explored the impact of the conflict situation between the order and accuracy of web page information presentation(web page presentation is on top but the accuracy of information is low,web page presentation is on bottom but the accuracy of information is high)on the network selective trust of children aged 10-12 years;The third experiment explored the effect of web information accuracy(high accuracy,low accuracy)on selective trust and information content memory of children aged 10-12.The results showed that:(1)The main effect of page information presentation order is significant,and children tend to choose to the present top page information.The main effect of age is not significant;(2)The main effect of the conflict situation between the order and accuracy of web page information presentation is significant.Children tend to trust the web page information presented top in the selection task,but the opposite is true in the endorse task and the ask task;(3)The main effect of web information accuracy is significant.Children tend to trust web information with high accuracy,and their memory performance is also better in the web information with high accuracy.At the same time,the main effect of age is significant.Older children have better memory than younger children.Based on the above experiments,we can draw the conclusions:(1)Children aged 10-12 years old have a halo effect on their selective trust in web pages,which is affected by the order of web page information presentation,and tend to choose and trust the web page information retrieval results presented in front;(2)When the order of web page information presentation conflicts with the accuracy of web page information,children will choose to click the web page with the first order of presentation based on heuristic processing,but ultimately trust the web page with higher accuracy based on systematic processing;(3)The selective trust of children aged 10-12 in the web page is affected by the accuracy of the web page information.Children tend to choose the web page with higher accuracy of information,and the memory of the information provided by the web page with higher accuracy is better than that of the information with lower accuracy.Older children can recall more content than younger children.