Essay On Multitasking And Memory

The purpose of this project is to see how well people can remember the details of two or more tasks that they completed at the same time. My problem statement is how does multitasking effect memory. I was curious on this topic because I always hear my teachers say that multitasking is impossible and that the human brain can only focus on one thing at a time. So I decided to test that to see if they are actually correct. For my experiment, I will get a large group of people and then divide them into groups of about two or three people. I will have five groups in total. Each group will be asked to perform a certain task in a certain time limit. And as each group number increases, so will the number of tasks that they have to complete. For example, Group one will be given one task to complete and then be tested on it. Group two …show more content…
Memory is the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information. It can also be described as something that has been remembered from the past or recollected. Multitasking is the handling of more than one task at the same time by a single person. So it basically means the ability to do more than one task at the same time. Based on the research that I have done, many sources show that multitasking is very hard and almost impossible for humans to complete. This is because the brain is not able to concentrate fully on two things at the same time. Some people argue that multitasking is possible and that it is very easy. When they say this, they bring up examples such as being able to talk and walk at the same time, or being able to chew gum and read a book at the same time. But these tasks can be easily completed at the same time because one of the tasks doesn’t require much attention to complete. So when scientists say that it is impossible to multitask, they mean tasks that both require your full