The negative effects of multitasking Multitasking is when a person does many tasks at once. Multitasking is something people do everyday or often. People text and drive,walk and read ,and listen to music while doing their homework. People multitask without realizing the negative effects that come with it. Sometimes, doing too much is harmful for our mind .Multitasking can cause lack of focus, memory impairment, and increase stress levels.
A effect of Multitasking causes lack of focus .”Whenever a person does two things at a time you can lose the focus required to adequately complete one item” (Carol Deeb). Too many distractions or tasks break your concentration,which requires more time to come back and find where you left off. Such as talking on the phone and writing a paper. Sometimes whenever a person is hearing something they mistaken and write what they …show more content…
When you are multitasking it's really hard to remember what you are doing if you keep going back and forth between multiple of tasks.
According Schultz “ when you put your attention from task to task, though, the information can’t be processed quickly enough, It’s sent to another part of the brain called the striatum, which is responsible for planning movements and motivation rather than storing data”. Then, if it keeps gathering information it's sent to the an area of your brain called the posterior lateral frontal cortex .When it's sent there than it is called short-term memory loss so you will forget easily. “The human mind can shift rapidly between tasks, on the order of a few hundred milliseconds”(Clark).The faster it is the less sense and memory we have. Richtel said that “ people between the ages of 60 and 80 have significantly more trouble remembering tasks after experiencing a brief interruption than do people in their 20s and 30s”.The bad thing it becomes a habit learning and you can't really stop
A effect of Multitasking causes lack of focus .”Whenever a person does two things at a time you can lose the focus required to adequately complete one item” (Carol Deeb). Too many distractions or tasks break your concentration,which requires more time to come back and find where you left off. Such as talking on the phone and writing a paper. Sometimes whenever a person is hearing something they mistaken and write what they …show more content…
When you are multitasking it's really hard to remember what you are doing if you keep going back and forth between multiple of tasks.
According Schultz “ when you put your attention from task to task, though, the information can’t be processed quickly enough, It’s sent to another part of the brain called the striatum, which is responsible for planning movements and motivation rather than storing data”. Then, if it keeps gathering information it's sent to the an area of your brain called the posterior lateral frontal cortex .When it's sent there than it is called short-term memory loss so you will forget easily. “The human mind can shift rapidly between tasks, on the order of a few hundred milliseconds”(Clark).The faster it is the less sense and memory we have. Richtel said that “ people between the ages of 60 and 80 have significantly more trouble remembering tasks after experiencing a brief interruption than do people in their 20s and 30s”.The bad thing it becomes a habit learning and you can't really stop