Task Speed and Accuracy Decrease When Multitasking

Lin, Lin; Cockerham, Deborah; Chang, Zhengsi; Natividad, Gloria

doi:10.1007/s10758-015-9266-4

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“…Interestingly, our results showed that the response times of both adolescents and adults were faster than those of children, whereas adolescents' response times were faster than those of adults. Although this outcome was unexpected, it is supported by previous studies, such as that of Lin et al (2016), which demonstrated that the response times and accuracies of teenagers (13-19 years) were better than those of young adults (20-24 years). This phenomenon can probably be explained by the development of the prefrontal cortex (PFC).…”

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Development of Holistic Face Processing From Childhood and Adolescence to Young Adulthood in Chinese Individuals

Sun

Cao

2020

Front. Psychol.

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Previous studies have indicated that holistic face processing is important for the development of face perception. The purpose of this study was to verify the development trajectory of holistic processing, from older childhood to young adulthood, using the complete composite paradigm. Participants from three different age groups (children, adolescents, young adults) were recruited for this study. The results showed that all groups demonstrated the composite effect with similar magnitude. Furthermore, face processing performance improved with age. These results, together with previous results, imply it is a race-general phenomenon that holistic face processing is similar among older children, adolescents, and young adults.

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confidence: 60%

Development of Holistic Face Processing From Childhood and Adolescence to Young Adulthood in Chinese Individuals

Sun

Cao

2020

Front. Psychol.

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“…For the most part, students do not recognize the extent of the negative consequences of media multitasking on academic performance. College students commonly report that multitasking increases productivity (Lin et al, 2015). Because research indicates that student media multitasking extends to outside of the classroom, and because studies establish the negative impact of multitasking on academic performance, students should be advised to carefully monitor their technology use when working on school assignments.…”

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“…College students commonly but erroneously report that multitasking increases productivity (Lin, Cockerham, Chang, & Natividad, 2015). Other students multitask on a situational basis according to motive.…”

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confidence: 99%

Efficient, helpful, or distracting? A literature review of media multitasking in relation to academic performance

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Elder

2018

Int J Educ Technol High Educ

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Media multitasking, using two or more medias concurrently, prevails among adolescents and emerging adults. The inherent mental habits of media multitasking-dividing attention, switching attention, and maintaining multiple trains of thought-have significant implications and consequences for students' academic performance. The goal of this review is to synthesize research on the impacts of media multitasking on academic performance. The research indicates that media multitasking interferes with attention and working memory, negatively affecting GPA, test performance, recall, reading comprehension, note-taking, self-regulation, and efficiency. These effects have been demonstrated during in-class activities (largely lectures) and while students are studying. In addition, students struggle to accurately assess the impact media multitasking will have on their academic performance. Further research should attend to understanding effects of media multitasking in more diverse instructional contexts and for varied academic tasks. Fostering students' self-regulation around media multitasking is a promising area for future efforts towards improving academic performance of college students.

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“…For example, the theoretical models of [ 26 ] incorporate basic personality dimensions of individual differences, or in [ 34 ] it was found that non-ability factors also underlay success or failure. In this latter work, especially neuroticism predicted performance, a personality variable investigated by others as well [ 16 , 26 , 38 ].…”

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“…Other non-ability traits analyzed by several studies are Type A behavior pattern [ 11 , 12 , 34 ], need for closure [ 37 , 39 ], extraversion [ 13 , 16 , 26 , 34 , 38 ]. Out of these, neuroticism and extraversion are members of the Big Five or OCEAN personality traits, considered by some of the works listed.…”

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Strategic predictors of performance in a divided attention task

2018

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In this study we investigate the strategies of subjects in a complex divided attention task. We conducted a series of experiments with ten participants and evaluated their performance. After an extensive analysis, we identified four strategic measures that justify the achievement of the participants, by highlighting the individual differences and predicting performance in a regression analysis using generalized estimating equations. Selecting the more urgent task and user action between multiple simultaneous possibilities form two of the strategic decisions, respectively. The third one refers to choosing a response within the same task when the opportunity is present. The fourth and most important measure of strategy involves thinking ahead and executing an action before a situation would become critical. This latter one has the effect of reducing later cognitive load or timing constraints and it is shown to explain almost as much variance in performance as the other three, more straightforward predictors together. In addition to determining these strategic predictors, we also show how manipulating task difficulty induces a shift in strategy, thus impairing human performance in the rehearsed task. The results of this study indicate that considerable differences in the divided attention ability of normal subjects can be identified early and with simple measurements. The importance of describing and analyzing strategies is also emphasized, which can substantially influence performance in complex tasks and may serve training needs.

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Task Speed and Accuracy Decrease When Multitasking

Cited by 24 publications

References 27 publications

Development of Holistic Face Processing From Childhood and Adolescence to Young Adulthood in Chinese Individuals

Development of Holistic Face Processing From Childhood and Adolescence to Young Adulthood in Chinese Individuals

Efficient, helpful, or distracting? A literature review of media multitasking in relation to academic performance

Strategic predictors of performance in a divided attention task

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