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Running head: Multitasking 1 Multitasking Alyson M. Jones Liberty University

Multitasking 2 Multitasking Multitasking is something that everyone does every day whether they think they are doing it or not. For me, multitasking comes naturally when I am not aware of that fact that I am multitasking. During the experiment that I completed in the book, I was having a hard time keeping myself in a state of focused awareness with or without music because I was so focused on the fact that I needed to retain the information. I do know that I study better when I have music playing. When I read a book or study without music, I get bored and my brain wanders, and I end up not focusing at all on what I need to be working on. My state of focused awareness drifts into a state of daydreaming. However, I cannot text and study or watch tv and study. To say that no one should multi-task and study would be incorrect in my eyes. Everyone is different and learns differently, each person should figure out how they retain information best and work that way. If they really do work best while listening to music, it will reflect in their work. Dividing your attention between driving and something else, should never be attempted. When you take your attention away from the road and put it towards something else, such as eating, texting, reading, or cleaning your car, you not only put yourself in danger, but also the people around you. People do not seem to understand how dangerous cars are, they are essentially a death trap and when you add texting to the mix, you are 3 times more likely to cause an accident (Nevid, pg.135-137). I know I cannot do anything else while I am driving, I received a speeding ticket because I was talking to a passenger and wasn’t paying attention to my speedometer. In short, no one should do anything in the car besides drive. There are some tasks that are easier to multi-task on than others, such as cleaning and listening to music. Driving and texting on the other hand is much more complicated to do, because they are both high level tasks that require higher levels of brain power. Both of those things are “mechanical” tasks. It’s

Multitasking 3 easier to clean and listen to music because only one of those tasks is “mechanical”. Performing mechanical tasks allows our mind to switch to “automatic pilot” (Nevid, pg.135-136). However, it all goes back to the type of person who is trying to multitask. Some people can’t multi-task or divide their attention no matter what the tasks are. Where-as some people can do many things at once. Although, if you look at the people who do ten things at once, everything they are doing is only okay not great. Dividing your consciousness between two things, depending on what they are can be fine, but dividing your consciousness between more than two things, may not be the best thing if you want everything to be great. Resources

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Multitasking 4 Nevid, Jeffery, S. (2018), Essentials of Psychology . Cengage Learning.

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