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Multitasking

            Today's society moves at a faster pace than ever before. Many of us get through our days by flipping back and forth between one task and another. But how does all this multitasking affect us? According to the article "One Thing at a Time"", many of us understand that some kinds of multitasking can be dangerous. But too many of us think that we can get by with multitasking because we just don't understand how bad it is for us. The article explains new research that proves that any multitasking is bad because it hurts our ability to focus. When we try to do many things at once, we do everything slowly and badly. I was very interested to learn how even regular kinds of multitasking can hurt our concentration, but what I found most significant is that we have to actually practice focusing on one thing in order to quit our habit of multitasking. This made me think how important it is to do activities that can improve our concentration because they help us stop dividing dividing our attention and stay focused on individual tasks.
             Doing many things at the same time can affect us our lives. Multitasking can affect the mind. In others words, a single-task oriented individual can memorize more than a person who multi-tasks. 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. Based on the article "a tremendous among of evidence show that the brain does better when it's performing tasks in sequence rather than all at once ". This means that the brain work better when is only focused on one specific thing than everything at once. For example; when I'm in my house doing my homework I always have the TV or music on. These things affect me in a bad way because i get distracted while I'm study by those sounds, its get difficult for me to study doing others things.


Essays Related to Multitasking

1. Single and Multi-Tasking in School

Your children are growing up in a world in which so-called multitasking is a standard and even considered crucial for success. ... At this stage of development we are not able to "overcome the inherent limitations in the brain for processing information during multitasking." In other words, multitasking is not possible. Multitasking has a tremendous impact on your children's schoolwork and performance. ... Tendency to multitask is the best predictor of poor grades. ...

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2. Dangerous Driving Habits

The three top bad habits are multitasking while driving, speeding and substance abuse. ... Multitasking while driving is one of many causes of fatal accidents every year. Some examples of multitasking are: texting, putting on makeup, talking on the phone, and reading mail. ... Speeding, multitasking, and substance abuse are all dangerous habits, but I do know that they can all be avoided. ...

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3. The Danger of Cell Phones

A student may like to multitask when studying, but in the end it is far better to focus on one task from start to finish." "A cascade of negative outcomes occurs from multitasking while doing homework. ... Fourth, multitasking while learning in negatively associated with GPA" (Paul). ...

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4. Technology and the Minds of a Generation

Technical devices pose dangers such as multitasking and making it difficult for people to make face to face conversation from overuse, but technology also has a very optimistic advantage. ... Gary Small gives his opinion on risks people take while multitasking, "It's hard to get people to stop texting while they're driving, although it's a 23 times greater risk of having an accident. ... Daniel Ackerman, a teacher at the Bronx school where students are able to use laptops in class, told Front Line that students would be multitasking while doing school work instead of focus...

  • Word Count: 1197
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5. OS2

Multitasking: A simple OS can run only a single program at a time, MS-DOS is an example. ... Such a system multitasks as well as its least cooperative program will permit (a system flows to the capacity of the smallest restriction). ... Pre-emptive multitasking, allows spreadsheet recalculation, web surfing and floppy disk format to all occur at the same time. OS/2, Windows 9X, Windows NT/2000/XP, all use pre-emptive multitasking. ... Multithreading: Similar to multitasking, but involves only a single program. ...

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6. Working and Learning the Hard Way

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7. Uncovering the Unconscious

Another drawback to our unconscious mind is our incapability to multitask. ... Our unconscious mind can only reveal so much information to our conscious at a time that it makes it virtually impossible for us to multitask (93-94). ...

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8. Digitalthink

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