Motivation And Multitask

In class today, we did an activity and watched a Mythbusters video and the topic of the day: distraction. When we are distracted, some of us may know while others won’t know their being distracted. Multitasking may be useful in some cases but is proven to be inefficient. This is because our minds need to work on a specific task and if their not doing a specific task and is doing multiple things at once then we will work much slower than we expect. From the activity, we did in class, my partner and I had to do basic math with the following conditions: no distractions, saying the ABC’s and saying in reverse order of what we ate for the last two days.We also had to time ourselves to see how quick we could do it and then our results would be placed

When you are trying to do something difficult, you focus on it. When you try to talk a passenger through landing a DC-10, you need all your focus so the plane doesn’t crash; it’s almost an impossible task. It’s the same when you multitask: you need all your focus to do one task, how can you focus on

What you view as harmless multitasking affects your efficiency because our brains have cognitive limits. According to “How to Do One Thing at a Time” published by Women’s Health Magazine, Clifford Nass, Ph.D., a professor at Stanford University performed an experiment on a group of students. A group of students was asked to spend 30 minutes to compile a playlist, chat, and write a short essay. Another group of students spent 10 minutes focusing on each task individually. After they completed their tasks, they were given a memory test. Professor Nass concluded that single-taskers did significantly better on the memory test than multi-taskers.

Your on your laptop writing a essay and studying while texting your friends, the next day you have a big test, since you were multitasking you failed the test. The effects of multitasking can be good or bad. They are bad. Multitasking is 2 or more things you do at once. Multitasking can’t be done effectively by teens or kids,one reason, teens and kids who multitask can make it hard to focus on the things, reason two kids could get stressed and have a lot of weight on their shoulders,reason three they may just give up and not even try and fail, the final reason is they could do it fail and then never try again.

According to The Article Multitasking Highlight Value of Self Control by Sarah D.Sparks developed on three points that are brain reaction time,new marshmallow test skills and tactics; this article is about capacity of getting well for a generation where people live with the multitasking being, inside is related the fact of social network and others that keep people of this generation to do several tasks at a single time, the brain can not be in two places at once if you do it this does allow you to be concentrating on anything, to multitasking takes too much time than if the work is attributed to several people you can be affected when you're making a choice there is a brief bottleneck in the prefrontal cortex the decision making part of

Twenty-Five minutes. This is the time it takes for teens to circle back to an original task after multitasking. Multitasking is switching focus between different tasks in succession, but not what is commonly believed as dividing attention. Teenagers think that by multitasking they are saving time, but with this they sacrifice focus (Tugend). The world we live in is best described as hectic. Teenagers wake up and face a multitude of tasks they must complete each day. They feel the need to do many of these tasks at one time in order to accomplish them all. However, do teens know if multitasking is beneficial? In reality, it takes longer to accomplish tasks when doing several

In general in classical psychology, it is said to be impossible to be effective in multitasking. However, the students believe that they are capable, and technology has increased their need to multitask. A study was conducted in order to determine how well the students can switch between tasks and not become distracted. Most of the students believed that they were effective in multitasking, yet the test results suggested differently. The test results showed that one student was actually significantly slower when switching between tasks, rather than capable of completing all tasks consistently. The professionals believe that multitasking will create minds that are unable to think well and clearly. The abundant access to technology allows our distractions to get in the way of the positive aspects of technology. Based of data from studies, it is shown that most kids and teenagers are using over 50 hours a week on technological devices, thus leading to issues with how their brain develops. The way a child chooses to spend most of their free time, it will have a significant impact on how their brain will function in the future as an

We live in a society where everyone is doing everything at once. We watch a program on TV while getting our homework done and checking emails on our laptops. We drive our cars while talking on the phone or texting friends. We are constantly multitasking between tasks in our daily lives, however multitasking can either make you more productive or less productive.

College students today face many distractions from T.V. to friends to cellphones this constant barrage of distractions has forced many students to multitask. Multitasking is the act of performing multiple tasks at once. Through studies, multitasking has been shown to damage learning and productivity. It is high time students learn the negative consequences that multitasking entails. One of the main effects of multitasking is a lack of focus.

One negative effect of multitasking is “work being a lesser quality than non-multitaskers who give homework their full attention” (Paul). “Their multitasking was significantly related to a lower GPA and to an increase in risk behaviors including use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs” (Weimer). Low GPA, alcohol, and drugs can cause students to drop out of school, not get a quality education, and make certain jobs requiring a higher education unavailable. Multitasking may seem like a small thing but it can have major effects on a student’s future. Falling behind in school makes it harder to get work done on time and multitasking will not help to get the work done

In my own experience about multitasking, I am actually enrolled as a student for a full credit so every day when got back home I have to do my homework and to do others house’s stuff that are required to be done by me like put trash outside and I have to do with my sisters some of their homework, usually I do with them their math homework, so it is not easy to be at the same time doing your homework and for another person especially if you did not use to do it. but doing it every day I realise when you start to do one thing and you keep doing it everyday you can become a multitasking on that thing because more you practise in doing things at the same time everyday you will be good with the process of switching

Stress and anxiety in students is mainly caused by homework (Galloway 3). Excessive Homework can cause a variety of health problems and “Studies that have explored the relation between homework and well-being indicate that number of hours of homework is negatively associated with psychological well-being, physical health symptoms, and sleep.” and these health issues can be very detrimental to students (Galloway 4). According to Galloway a “study of 1,457 students…found that academic demands [were the main reason] students gave for their sleep-deprivation.” and a lack of sleep can be detrimental to learning and engagement in school. A study of Australian high school students showed that doing more homework led to “more mood disturbance (…and fatigue) (Galloway 4). More time spent doing homework, the

Multitasking is becoming very significant on the workplace to complete the task in less time. In fact, some people believe that multitasking saves time and can be done at all together. On the other hand, some people think that it is a distracting activity which leads to a lack of concentration. According to David Silverman, “In Defense of Multitasking”, multitasking is “crucial to survival in today’s workplace” (522). However, I do not agree because multitasking reduces productivity, increases stress levels and it is, especially, problematic for students.

The rampant establishments and high patronage of fast food restaurants, coupled with drive-through attest to the fact that we are in a generation where people are just in a hurry to do too many things at the same time in a haste. This is because most people think they are a multitasker and can perform many activities at the same time. But the reality is computers are rather a multitasker in its design and performance. Multitasking is doing a lot of activities at the same time simultaneously.

Somewhere in every person’s life, there is a moment. A life changing situation that turns their entire world upside down. It could happen at any point, during adolescence or adulthood, and the result is the same. When life changes and shifts into something new, something has got to give, and it isn’t always a pleasant feeling. However, these same situations are what gives people strength and motivation to do something that could better themselves if the motivation come from the right place. Motivation stems from strange situations. It can be from a song, a conversation with a friend or a family member, or a random quote that was found on the internet, through a meme search, to post of Facebook. Either way the result is the same. Webster’s