Bbs, Addiction Research On High-level Cognitive Processes

The problem of Internet addiction for college students is becoming a research hotspot. Based on related research abroad, this study used lab experiments to explore the effect of BBS addiction on artificial grammar learning, in order to provide new cues for better understanding of BBS addiction's cognitive mechanism.The study was composed of two parts. In the first part of this study, the BBS Addiction Scale for College Students was established, which consists of four factors, compulsive use of BBS, withdrawal symptoms of BBS addiction, interpersonal and health-related problems of BBS addiction and time management problems. And a standard to define BBS addiction is established for the scale.In the second part, the study used the paradigm of artificial grammar learning to investigate how BBS-related information would affect advanced cognitive processes of BBS addicted students. The results suggested that, first, for both addicted and non-addicted, the sensibility and the response bias were both lower for sequences with high chunk strength, and the variable of sequence strength had no interaction effect with the other two variables. So an interruption process of the concrete information in artificial grammar learning existed, and its effect was not destroyed by any of the research treatments. Second, sensitivity of the addicted was lower when the sequence symbols were BBS-related, and no such effect existed for the non-addicted, which means BBS-related information will decrease the learning performance of the addicted. Third, sensitivity of the addicted was lower when the sequence symbols were BBS-related pictures than were BBS-related words, and no such effect existed for the non-addicted, which means BBS-related pictures decreases the learning performance of the addicted more than BBS-related word does.