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Media multitaskers pay mental price, Stanford study shows - 1 views

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  • keeping up several e-mail and instant message conversations at once, text messaging while watching television and jumping from one website to another while plowing through homework assignments.
  • the researchers realized those heavy media multitaskers are paying a big mental price
  • Everything distracts them
  • Sahana Sellathurai on 17 Nov 11
     
    Stanford Researchers' study on Multitasking. They say heavy media multitaskers are actually paying a big mental price. 
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Multitasking Muddles Brains, Even When the Computer Is Off | Wired Science | Wired.com - 0 views

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      Sahana Sellathurai on 15 Nov 11
       
      The experiment done to see how effective multitasking is.
  • In every test, students who spent less time simultaneously reading e-mail, surfing the web, talking on the phone and watching TV performed best.
  • college students who routinely juggle many flows of information, bouncing from e-mail to web text to video to chat to phone calls, fared significantly worse than their low-multitasking peers
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  • children doing worse on homework while watching television, office workers being more productive when not checking email every five minutes.
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Examining the Affects of Student Multitasking With Laptops During the Lecture | Journal... - 0 views

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  • We find that students engage in substantial multitasking behavior with their laptops and have non course-related software applications open and active about 42% of the time.
  • Although many students may believe they can switch back and forth between different tasks with no serious consequences to their academic performance, multitasking has been shown to dramaticaUy increase the number of memory errors and the processing time required to "learn" topics that involve a significant cognitive load
  • Although many students may believe they can switch back and forth between different tasks with no serious consequences to their academic performance,
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  • can result in the acquisition of less flexible knowledge that cannot be easily recalled and/or applied in new situations
  • Sahana Sellathurai on 15 Nov 11
     
    Examines how students learn when using a laptop during their lectures.
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Multi-tasking Adversely Affects Brain's Learning, UCLA Psychologists Report - 2 views

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  • Even if you learn while multi-tasking, that learning is less flexible and more specialized, so you cannot retrieve the information as easily.
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      Sahana Sellathurai on 15 Nov 11
       
      The experiment they did to test if multitasking is effective.
  • When the subjects were asked questions about the cards afterward, they did much better on the task they learned without the distraction.
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  • "Our results suggest that learning facts and concepts will be worse if you learn them while you're distracted,
  • The researchers noted that they are not saying never to multi-task, just don't multi-task while you are trying to learn something new that you hope to remember.
  • Listening to music can energize people and increase alertness. Listening to music while performing certain tasks, such as exercising, can be helpful. But tasks that distract you while you try to learn something new are likely to adversely affect your learning,
  • Sahana Sellathurai on 15 Nov 11
     
    An article about multi-tasking and its affects, according to the psychologists at UCLA. Result : Do not multitask when learning something new. 
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