Running Head: MULTITASKING 1
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MULTITASKING 2
Are We Superhuman? Rebeca Andrade Thunderbird Adventist Academy
We have all done some sort of multitasking at some point in our lives, but is it really multitasking? Or are we just doing tasks that do not demand any of our brainpower? Multitasking, is to deal with more than one task at the same time. Multitasking nowadays is a part of our daily lives, it is something we think we do every day. Some examples of multitasking are chewing gum while walking, doing homework while watching TV and many more. Some of these examples do not require intellect therefore, my hypothesis is that multitasking does not work. Because when it comes to requiring intellect in the tasks you perform simultaneously, you will fail. …show more content…
Multitasking does not work because it is task switching. In other words, you are switching from one task to another rapidly. “It takes more time to get tasks completed than if you do them one at a time” (Weinschenk, Task Switching is “expensive” section, para. 1). I agree with this because when you are switching tasks, you don’t finish them and you still must come back to them. During the mid-1990s, “Robert Rogers, PhD, and Stephen Monsell, D. Phil, found that even when people had to switch completely predictably between two tasks every two or four trials, they were still sower on task-switch than on task-repeat trials” (Multitasking: Switching costs, 2006, para. 3). Multitasking is something we think we do every day but we are instead, shifting our attention to do other
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MULTITASKING 2
Are We Superhuman? Rebeca Andrade Thunderbird Adventist Academy
We have all done some sort of multitasking at some point in our lives, but is it really multitasking? Or are we just doing tasks that do not demand any of our brainpower? Multitasking, is to deal with more than one task at the same time. Multitasking nowadays is a part of our daily lives, it is something we think we do every day. Some examples of multitasking are chewing gum while walking, doing homework while watching TV and many more. Some of these examples do not require intellect therefore, my hypothesis is that multitasking does not work. Because when it comes to requiring intellect in the tasks you perform simultaneously, you will fail. …show more content…
Multitasking does not work because it is task switching. In other words, you are switching from one task to another rapidly. “It takes more time to get tasks completed than if you do them one at a time” (Weinschenk, Task Switching is “expensive” section, para. 1). I agree with this because when you are switching tasks, you don’t finish them and you still must come back to them. During the mid-1990s, “Robert Rogers, PhD, and Stephen Monsell, D. Phil, found that even when people had to switch completely predictably between two tasks every two or four trials, they were still sower on task-switch than on task-repeat trials” (Multitasking: Switching costs, 2006, para. 3). Multitasking is something we think we do every day but we are instead, shifting our attention to do other