Multitasking In Teenagers

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Teens are always on their phones. Whether it’s at the store, school, or even driving. Teenagers are losing communication skills, getting into fights more, and getting distracted in school. These are the effects of teens getting on their phone way too much.

Sana, Weston, & Cepeda (2013), Laptop multitasking hinders learning for both users and nearby peers. Computers & Education 62 (2013): 24-31.

To begin with, online time for teens should be limited except for school work. Firstly the article, "Teens and the Internet: How Much is too Much? by Stephanie Newman P.H.D.", says, "In addition to a decline in school performance and grades, sign might include repeated surfing or e-mailing during class time, difficulty concentrating and falling asleep in class,

In “Constant Contact Is Bad for Your Health” by David E Meyer is a down and dirty article that specifies just how unhealthy multi-tasking can be for you. His warnings are dire and should be listened to, though nobody likes a harbinger. According to the author, “Excessive multitasking can lead to chronic stress, with potential damage to the cardiovascular, immune, and nervous systems. Fatal accidents are more likely too. …. There is also an increased chance that people, especially the young, may not develop the ability to concentrate on important tasks for long periods of time, or may lose that ability for lack of practice.” (David E. Meyer 1) He is definitely not cheerful, but that’s because it is serious

Media multitasking is associated with symptoms of depression and social anxiety according to Mark W. Becker, Reem Alzahabi, and Christopher J. Hopwood’s study. These people conducted an experiment containing 318 participants. And the 318 people completed self-inventory tests to measure their media use, personality, depression, and social anxiety. The study suggests that the increased use of media multitasking show a risk to develop problems related to the individual’s mood and anxiety levels. With that being said this problem is raising concerns that media is replacing face to face interactions. “While overall media use among America’s youth increased by 20 percent over the past decade, the amount of time spent multitasking with media (simultaneously interacting with more than one form of media) increased by over 119 percent over the same period”( Becker, M. W., Alzahabi, R., & Hopwood, C. J. (2013)). Media multitasking has now been associated with attention control, meaning how to filter out any useless information and how to ignore distractions. Also in this study they looked at not only mood changes and anxiety disorders they also looked at traits of neuroticism and extraversion. All of these

Mr. Rick concludes that “Although the present findings [don’t] demonstrate a cause-effect relationship, the finding suggest that media multitasking may positively influence certain cognitive abilities including multisensory integration.” Although it can awaken certain senses, it only really works effectively on about 5% the population (Weimer). I feel that if a student or employee is multitasking all the time and nothing is learned it shows that multitasking can be damaging. And Although

Can you think of the last time you sat down and read a book without watching your favorite show on T.V. , or when you last cooked dinner without texting on your phone at the same time? It is almost impossible to live our day to day lives without multitasking. Seen as a quicker, more efficient way to get things done, and giving people the sense of being superhuman, multitasking may not be as beneficial as we think. Is multitasking beneficial, and are we shrinking our brain’s by taking on more than one task at a time? Defined in the online article Multitasking The Cognitive Costs of Multitasking, multitasking is “performing two or more tasks simultaneously, switching back and forth from one thing to another, involves performing a number of tasks

According to Twenge, the number of teens that go out with their friends has decreased by 40 percent compared to earlier generations. Twenge compares iGens to different generations such as Gen X (born between 1965 and early 1984), baby boomers (1946-1964) and Millennials (born around 1982-2002). Twenge emphasizes on the time teenagers spend on their phones. Social media plays a huge role in this. In accordance to Twenge, different forms of social media like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat are what teenagers spend more time on. According to Twenge, the more time teens spend on smartphones the greater they are at risk for suicide, depression, and loneliness. Twenge also explains how teens are not receiving an adequate amount of sleep, many teens now sleep less than seven hours. Twenge concludes the article by sharing her own experience with her children and technology, she recommends parents to limit the time their children spend on phones. (59-65)

The reducing of braking is listed under the criteria of decreased accuracy, with other effects of multitasking like, being stressed, and slowing down thinking the capacity. The negative effects from multitasking were found to affect our young adults, more than our adults. (Morris, Masito 2012) There is also some effects caused by multitasking like, decreased in accuracy, stress in certain situation, and slowing down thinking process.

A brain-scanning study at the University of California-Los Angeles showed that the repeated exposure to technology alters the brain’s circuitry, creating a gap between the younger digital native generation and the older digital immigrant generation. The brain is very malleable, able to be changed with the media it consumes. The result is that people’s brains are adapting to social networking and a multitasking culture (Small). Also, I can see this effect in my own experiences as a student. There are many times where, in order to properly study, I have to put my computer and smartphone completely out of sight; otherwise, they will be a distraction to what I need to really concentrate on.

In the study, What else do college students “do” while studying?, the authors investigated, how often and long college students multitasked, when completing homework. The authors established a six-part hypothesis. First, they tested if a negative mood and multitasking were positively correlated, or if a positive mood and multitasking behaviors were negatively correlated. Next, the experimenters tested if fatigue and multitasking behavior were positively correlated. Finally, they tested if homework motivation and multitasking behaviors would be positively correlated, or if self-motivation and multitasking behaviors would be negatively correlated. The experimenters used a correlation study, because the test compared the relationship

It is predicted by the year 2050 the world's population will have increased to over 9 billion people. (International...) If this prediction comes true the world will become overpopulated and cause problems like famine, the world already struggles with feeding the amount of people alive today. A second problem is housing, in underdeveloped countries there is already a struggle with giving people places to live, so companies clear land to build houses but that leads to habitat loss and animal loss. The third reason is disease, if a disease was started and spread when the world was overpopulated the disease could eliminate half of the human population.

How could an innocent game lead to a future of unwanted consequences? No one expects the worst until it finally occurs to them. My little sister is quite competitive when it comes to winning. Eager to have a slight taste of victory was all it took for her to get into “Game Mode” as I would like to call it. She’ll be too determined on stealing the ball from me that she will do anything to win.

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.