cognitive style of information perception, characterized by the following key features:
1) Fragmentarity: perception of the world not as an integral system, but as a set of disparate, weakly interconnected facts, images and events (“clips”).
2) High switching speed: the ability to quickly switch attention from one object to another, but the inability to keep attention for a long time on one, especially complex, source.
3) Superficiality: a tendency to quickly but shallow assimilation of information without its critical comprehension, analysis and establishment of complex cause-and-effect relationships.
4) Orientation to visual images: the predominance of the visual channel of perception (images, videos, memes, infographics) over the textual and logical.
5) Emotional reactivity: a reaction to a bright, emotionally charged “shell” of information, and not to its essence and deep meaning.
The main reason for the formation of clip thinking is the adaptation of a person to a new information environment. It is worth noting that clip thinking is not a pathology, it is rather a feature of cognitive information processing that has an adaptive value.