Multitasking Mastery
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What hypothesis suggests that heavy multitasking may enhance some control processes?

  • Selective attention hypothesis
  • Scattered attention hypothesis
  • Divided attention hypothesis
  • Trained attention hypothesis (correct)

    • What did Ophir et al. (2009) find about heavy media multitaskers?

  • They have equal attentional control as non-multitaskers
  • They are more distractable (correct)
  • They are less prone to distraction
  • They have better attentional control

    • What is the deadline for submitting reflections on Moodle Discussion Board?

  • Thursday at 5 pm
  • Friday at 10 am
  • Thursday at 10 am (correct)
  • Friday at 5 pm

    • When is Quiz 3 scheduled?

    <p>Friday</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What percentage of young adults report regularly using social media?

    <p>90%</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Socrates fear would have negative effects on memory?

    <p>Writing</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Schneider & Shiffrin find in their Experiment 1 regarding divided attention?

    <p>Participants became better at tasks requiring divided attention with substantial practice</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why is it dangerous to be on the phone while driving?

    <p>It impairs the ability to predict where threats might occur</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Wiradhany & Nieuwenstein find regarding replication in their study?

    <p>Replication failures were observed</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did participants report after 600 trials in Schneider & Shiffrin's Experiment 1?

    <p>Task became automatized</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Henderson et al. suggest about attention to multiple tasks?

    <p>No negative consequences</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Gonidis & Sharma highlight as a problem?

    <p>Conflating internet use with social media use</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What hypothesis suggests that heavy multitasking may enhance some control processes?

    <p>Trained attention hypothesis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Ophir et al. (2009) find about heavy media multitaskers?

    <p>They are more distractible</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When is the deadline for submitting reflections on Moodle Discussion Board?

    <p>Thursday at 10 am</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the topic of the upcoming Exam 1?

    <p>Make It Stick</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Schneider & Shiffrin find in their Experiment 2 regarding automatic processing?

    <p>Automatic processing is not possible for difficult tasks</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why is it dangerous to be on the phone while driving?

    <p>Impaired ability to predict where threats might occur</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Henderson et al. suggest about attention to multiple tasks?

    <p>Belief attention can be focused on multiple tasks with no negative consequences</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did participants report after 600 trials in Schneider & Shiffrin's Experiment 1?

    <p>Task became automatized</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Gonidis & Sharma highlight as a problem?

    <p>Conflating internet use with social media use</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Ophir et al. (2009) find about heavy media multitaskers?

    <p>They have difficulty filtering out irrelevant information</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Wiradhany & Nieuwenstein find regarding replication in their study?

    <p>Replication failures</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Socrates fear would have negative effects on memory?

    <p>Writing things down</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Multitasking and Attention

    • The adaptive control hypothesis suggests that heavy multitasking may enhance some control processes.
    • Heavy media multitaskers, as found by Ophir et al. (2009), have a greater likelihood of switching between tasks and are more sensitive to the environment.
    • The deadline for submitting reflections on Moodle Discussion Board is not specified.
    • Quiz 3 is scheduled, but the exact date is not mentioned.

    Attention and Memory

    • 80% of young adults report regularly using social media.
    • Socrates feared that writing would have negative effects on memory.
    • Schneider & Shiffrin's Experiment 1 found that divided attention leads to a performance decrement.
    • Participants reported that with practice, divided attention became automatic after 600 trials in Schneider & Shiffrin's Experiment 1.

    Driving and Phone Usage

    • It is dangerous to be on the phone while driving because it diverts attention away from the road.

    Research Findings

    • Wiradhany & Nieuwenstein's study found that replication is a problem in multitasking research.
    • Henderson et al. suggested that attention to multiple tasks can be improved with practice.
    • Gonidis & Sharma highlighted the problem of divided attention in multitasking situations.

    Exam 1

    • The topic of the upcoming Exam 1 is not specified.

    Automatic Processing

    • Schneider & Shiffrin's Experiment 2 found that automatic processing can be developed with practice.

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