Mr. Zane Dickey
Digital Citizen B5
31 October 2013
Problems of Multitasking While Studying
Many students, including me, get distracted by other things while studying. For
example, it became a habit of chatting on Facebook or
texting on cellphones while doing homework. This can give a bad impact on
students. There were experiments to prove this right. For a quarter of an hour,
the investigators from the lab of Larry Rosen, a psychology professor at
California State University–Dominguez Hills, marked down once a minute what
the students were doing as they studied. Although the students had been told at
the outset that they should “study something important, including homework,
an upcoming examination or project, or reading a book for a course,” it wasn’t
long before their attention drifted.(Slate) This experiment was like a 'New
Marshmallow Test', students are easily attracted to watching television or
texting while doing their work. Then why does this cause negative influences on
students?
David Meyer, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan who’s studied
the effects of divided attention on learning, takes a firm line on the brain’s
ability to multitask: “Under most conditions, the brain simply cannot do two
complex tasks at the same time. It can happen only when the two tasks are both
very simple and when they don’t compete with each other for the same mental
resources.(Slate) This means that when students multitask while doing their
work, the materials they learn aren't fully in their memory than when they
concentrate.
Also, multitasking effects grades. Researchers are beginning to demonstrate
that media multitasking while learning is negatively associated with students’
grades. In Rosen’s study, students who used Facebook during the 15-minute
observation period had lower grade-point averages than those who didn’t go on
the site.(Slate)
Banning multitasking for good would be hard to achieve. However, if other
people like, teacher or parents tell them that they should concentrate on their
work, the problem would be able to decrease.
Works Cited
Paul, Annie "You'll Never Learn!". Slate.com. The Slate Group, 3 May 2013. Web. 30 October 2013
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