Distributed cognition
It is concerned with the nature of cognitive phenomena across individuals, artifacts, and internal and external representations
External cognition
It is concerned with explaining how we interact with external representations, what the cognitive benefits are, and what processes are involved as well as how they extend cognition
Cognitive offloading
Common strategy to prevent forgetting and to avoid the effort of remembering
External representations of cognitive offloading
-Remind us that we need to do something
-Remind us of what to do
-Remind us when to do something
Computational offloading
When a tool is used in conjunction with an external representation to carry out a computation
Annotation
It involves modifying existing representations through making marks
e.g: crossing off, ticking, and underlining
Cognitive tracing
It involves externally manipulating items into different orders or structures
e.g:, playing Scrabble or cards
