Role of Social Media Usage on the Cognitive Learning Among Third–Year Psychology Students

Vol.3, No.1C

Abstract

This study analyzes how social media affects cognitive learning and its role in the third-year psychology students of the Bestlink College of the Philippines. The researchers used the purposive sampling method, and the data was collected through Google Forms. To assess students’ social media usage and their level of cognitive learning as to attention and memory, the researchers used the frequency and percentage and the SPSS Pearson correlation to know the cause-and-effect relationship of the three variables.

SPSS result shows that the person correlation coefficient of social media usage and attention is 0.086 with a significance value of .553, and the Pearson correlation coefficient of social media usage and memory is 0.076 with a .599 significance value. It indicated that there is a very weak positive correlation relationship.