Negative Effects Of Multitask

There was an investigation done from the lab of Larry Rosen who was a psychology professor at California State where he gathered middle schoolers, high schoolers, and college students 263 people total to see what they do while doing their homework. For every quarter of an hour the investigators put down once a minute to see if the students were actually doing homework or something educational. This would include for the students to be writing a paper, typing on their computer or reading a book, but on the other side the investigators also wrote down anything that the students were doing that was not educational including being on their phone, watching television, listening to music, or anything that was not letting them succeed in their education.

These students were informed to be doing something educational or to study for something that was important, but it wasn’t long until their

There are many negative outcomes that researchers have documented while trying to multitask two different difficult tasks. Meyer, of the University of Michigan also states that this generation has had to work less than the past generations because we have technology at our fingertips and is easy to use at any time. Given that these distractions are not going to go away, the temptations will lower if a person is trying to achieve an academic or professional goal that is difficult.

If a student is able to create a break for five or less minutes in the middle of their intense homework they will allow themselves to text or check any social accounts, then after they will continue to work on their homework. Rosen mentions that this helps the student put a longer working time doing school work because they know that they will soon receive a break to be on social media for a