Multitasking: A Case Study

Multitasking is to be deliberated as having many effects on a person when distractions, or delays become more frequent and self-control can help or make it worse on accomplishing tasks. Having sounds or certain resources may steer one away or towards their tasks, could also be an effect. When one is trying to multitask, they need to be aware of auditory patterns, self-control, and any delays that may arise when completing multiple tasks at once. T. Miller, S. Chen. WW. Lee and E. Sussman, problem solving found that the best way to accomplish tasks is one at a time, when auditory distractions that share memory resources, one tends to make more mistakes when trying to multitasking. The authors problem solving discovered that the mind doesn’t totally submit unaccompanied content to uniform background sound (Fishman, Micheyl, & Steinschneider, 2012; Jones, Alford, Bridges, Tremblay, & Macken, 1999; Sussman, 2005; Sussman, Ritter, & Vaughan, 1998, 1999, p 1141).
Salvucci and Taatgen (2011), following Altmann and Trafton (2007) and Borst, Taatgen, and Van Rijn (2010) p 734,”explain why switching during working-memory load decreases performance: When people return to the primary task after a switch, they have to restore their working memory. Therefore, when participants choose to switch tasks when their working memory contains information important for the task (as they did in the delay condition) they need more time to restore that, compared to switching when their working memory contains nothing vital (as they did in the no delay condition).” People tend to wait when changing to other duties until they achieve a sub task (Sellen, Kurtenbach, and Buxton, 1990, p 729). However, the effects of choosing when to switch tasks and the delays that can possibly occur. I really liked the recommendation the article made, “is to avoid delays during high-workload moments in task execution” p