The Negative Effects Of Multitasking

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We as college students believe that doing multiple tasks at once is the most efficient way to accomplish our priorities in the limited time we have each and everyday. School, study, work, family and a social life are all tasks juggled by students and finding a way to get all done at once seems to be a great solution. Multitasking seems to be the solution to our busy lives, but is it really the best way to successfully complete every task needed to be done in a day. Multitasking is utilized in every aspect of students lives, in and outside of the classroom, and many are guilty of this almost essential part of our everyday lives. In order to see if multitasking is the solution for us as college students I’m going to provide the positive and negative effects of multitasking on many aspects of one 's daily life. Allowing students to multitask, as the GDC team uses task switch, can …show more content…

As shown in a test multitasking can improve the process of learning names (Helder and Shaughnessy). The test is a series of activities, such as answering addition problems and simple trivia, that can enhance long term retention of the names compared to only focusing on remembering the names with no distractions (Helder and Shaughnessy). This shows how having the skill of multitasking can help to remember the simple, yet easily forgotten, task of recalling someone 's name the first time they introduce themselves (Helder and Shaughnessy). Do to the results of the test it shows how having your full attention on memorizing the names of people is less effective than distributing your attention to multiple tasks (Helder and Shaughnessy). Distributing your attention to multiple tasks is shown to help in the setting of meeting new people, and it’s also helpful when you have to fill multiple roles throughout the

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