Déjà Jefferson Psych 102-036 19 September 2014 Unit 2 Mini-Multitaskers Multitasking is something that most teens do in their everyday life. Whether it is during studying time‚ hangout time‚ or even family time‚ teens tend to engage in multiple tasks at the same time. Rebecca A. Clay‚ the author of Mini-Multitaskers‚ also agrees with this concept. Her overall main point throughout the article is that Multitasking prevents teens form learning and retaining information. In the article‚ it is
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Oct 2013 Technology Look back at our day so far‚ how many people have we seen ignoring the world around them‚ not paying attention to the cashier or not absorbing the information in class? In Alina Tugend essay‚ multitasking can make you lose…Um... focus‚ she reported that multitasking may seem like it saves people time however‚ it makes people less efficient. It may be true that technology provides us with time-saving devices like push to cars‚ cell-phones that consist of 4G internet access‚ and
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Day in‚ Day out we all start our day doing more than one thing at a time. The morning starts with ironing our clothes while we listen to the news‚ delegating tasks to our family members to get our day going in what we call a productive manner‚ or better yet‚ “killing two birds with one stone.” We are all guilty of some form of multi-tasking. The article written by Alina Tugend gives an outlook on the art of multi-tasking and the effects. Reading the article the author wants us to think about
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The Multitasking Mind OXFORD SERIES ON COGNITIVE MODELS AND ARCHITECTURES Series Editor Frank E. Ritter Series Board Rich Carlson Gary Cottrell Pat Langley Richard M. Young Principles of Synthetic Intelligence: Psi: An Architecture of Motivated Cognition By Joscha Bach Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems Edited by Wayne D. Gray In Order to Learn: How the Sequence of Topics Influences Learning Edited by Frank E. Ritter‚ Josef Nerb‚ Erno Lehtinen‚ and Timothy M. O’Shea How
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What is multitasking? This is a simple question. Multitasking is performing multiple tasks at the same time. When multitasking we tend to think we can perform both tasks at hand. But‚ only simple everyday life experiences‚ such as walking and talking can be achieved. A common miss conception about multitasking is when people think they can do any two tasks and obtain all the information needed. It’s difficult to obtain the information from a class when listening to music because you’re either focused
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Examine the pros and cons of multitasking. The advent of modern electronic communication via multiple methods‚ mechanisms and devices has led to the pervasive‚ and in some cases‚ encourages the practice of multitasking in the work and business environment. As pointed out by Durbin (2017)‚ “It has become standard communication practice for many workers to read e-mail and text messages while listening to a presentation” (p. 208). Staunch supporters of multitasking claim it bolsters productivity
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The Myth of Multitasking‚ an article by Christine Rosen expresses peoples’ attempt to work like computers; executing multiple tasks concurrently in a shorter time span. Multitasking is the ability to swing attentions in between tasks by evaluating the importance of the tasks on hand and prioritising them. Technology has made it possible to multitask and soon‚ corporate workers began to include multitasking as a proficiency to portray themselves as tech savvy and efficient. The article “Who can
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(397). This large number of children and young adults who have reported that they engage in media multitasking‚ using more than one form of media at once‚ is alarming because although many people have the idea that media multitasking is productive and time-saving‚ it actually affects us in our daily lives by endangering our social and mental health. Our culture’s distorted view on media multitasking states that it is beneficial and more efficient than compartmentalizing tasks and completing them
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After completing the self- assessment‚ I need to work on multitasking when people are talking to me. Being a full-time mother of two‚ a full-time student‚ working part-time‚ planning a wedding and attempting to start a business‚ multitasking works in my favor. There is always something that needs to be started or completed in my world. after reading chapter one‚ I understand that even though my multitasking may work for me‚ it may not work for the people around me and I can miss something important
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In the past years‚ people have been using the term Multitasking which is doing several tasks at once. Our brain is kind like a computer‚ but we need to be careful because when you set your brain to do several things because this just make burn your mind or “slow you down”. Based on my experience when I get to the house from picking up the kids from school‚ I always have to check on them because they start running into the house and fighting each other. While I’m doing the dinner‚ washing dishes also
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