Multitasking plays an important part of our world today. From our daily lives to our work, multitasking can help save time and convenience. I would define multitasking as the capability of performing two actions at once. Which is close to what the book defines multitasking as: “to perform two or more tasks at the same time.” (Nevid, 2015, p. 135)
I think I am a good multi-tasker in some cases. I can text and walk or listen to music while exercising. I can eat while scrolling through social media on my phone and I can sing while taking a shower. Most people can perform low-level attention tasks easily. One thing I cannot multitask is doing schoolwork while listening to music. It has to be completely silent for me to focus on my work. Unfortunately, …show more content…
After reading the pages without any music and only my focused attention, I was able to recall most of the key words and concepts without looking back in the textbook. Whenever I turned on a song by my favorite band, I was able to recall some of the information but less information than I wrote down previously. For my mind to be able to understand and store information, my focused awareness has to be only be on reading the textbook. Focused awareness is defined as “a state of heightened alertness in which one is fully absorbed in the task at hand.” (Nevid, 2015, p. 136) Without any distractions of background music, I was able to be fully absorbed in the task of reading my textbook, which is why I could remember more information on the page. When the music was playing, my mind was in a state of divided consciousness. Divided consciousness is “the state of awareness characterized by divided attention to two or more tasks or activities performed at the same time.” (Nevid, 2015, p. 138) Since my attention was divided between reading and listening to music, I was unable to hold the same amount of information as I did
I think I am a good multi-tasker in some cases. I can text and walk or listen to music while exercising. I can eat while scrolling through social media on my phone and I can sing while taking a shower. Most people can perform low-level attention tasks easily. One thing I cannot multitask is doing schoolwork while listening to music. It has to be completely silent for me to focus on my work. Unfortunately, …show more content…
After reading the pages without any music and only my focused attention, I was able to recall most of the key words and concepts without looking back in the textbook. Whenever I turned on a song by my favorite band, I was able to recall some of the information but less information than I wrote down previously. For my mind to be able to understand and store information, my focused awareness has to be only be on reading the textbook. Focused awareness is defined as “a state of heightened alertness in which one is fully absorbed in the task at hand.” (Nevid, 2015, p. 136) Without any distractions of background music, I was able to be fully absorbed in the task of reading my textbook, which is why I could remember more information on the page. When the music was playing, my mind was in a state of divided consciousness. Divided consciousness is “the state of awareness characterized by divided attention to two or more tasks or activities performed at the same time.” (Nevid, 2015, p. 138) Since my attention was divided between reading and listening to music, I was unable to hold the same amount of information as I did