The one article about the participants taking notes and listening to the lecture at the same, was all about dividing attention—in Fall semester, the participants have to take notes during the lecture and listen to the lecture at the same time. And the participants have to divide their attention if they wanted to take notes and listen to the lecture at the same. In the spring semester, the participants just had to focus on paying attention to the lecture, not doing anything else, no divided task. Another article about the one group, the participants listen to the lecture, taking notes, and the cell phone would ring. Another group, the participants listen to the lecture, taking notes, and no cell phone would ring. Selective attention is the process of reacting to stimuli selectively when the other stimuli happen. So, when the participants were focusing on listening to the lecture and taking notes. For the group that the cell phone ring condition, the participants would hear the cell phone ringing, they would stop paying attention. I believe that the researchers in first article: note taking used appropriate measures to test the divided attention because if without the quizzes, how can you measure the attention? It goes the same to the second article: cell phone ringing. Because, if the researchers don’t give out the tests, how can they measure it accurately? After reading the …show more content…
The college students usually use the laptop during the class time such as taking notes or following up the presentation or just being on the internet, so why not test on the students for divided attention task? It’ll be also good research because there are a lot of college students who use the laptop while the professor give the