But how does all this multitasking affect us? ... When we try to do many things at once, we do everything slowly and badly. ... Doing many things at the same time can affect us our lives. ... The author explained the experiment of Stanford University, some students were asked to do all the things at the same time while others were asked to do individual to see who memorize better by taking a memory test. ... For example; when I'm in my house doing my homework I always have the TV or music on. ...

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In what ways do emotions affect our acquisition of knowledge? ... For example anxiety or anger in a learning situation could affect the "working memory" and the student could forget very quickly everything he has learnt on that particular day, another example would be when a student goes to an exam and is really stressed and even if he had revised and prepared himself well for the exam but is still not confident about it, when he goes into the exam room and when he sees the supervisors and the exam paper in front of him, he can have a sudden "block" in the memory and looks at the questions ...

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Everyday, without even thinking about it, we put words and phrases together to form thoughts and ideas in order to hold conversations, write letters, do homework, etc. Not once in this communication cycle do we think more or less about grammar. ...

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Centering prayer is something many or all should go to. As a college student, going to events like these seem really boring and time-consuming. You look at a centering prayer and think, "Man this is going to be the longest 30 minutes of my life." All that changed once I actually went. Dr. Quantz cam...

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