Negative Effects Of Multitaskers '
Déjà Jefferson
Psych 102-036
19 September 2014
Unit 2
Mini-Multitaskers
Multitasking is something that most teens do in their everyday life. Whether it is during studying time, hangout time, or even family time, teens tend to engage in multiple tasks at the same time. Rebecca A. Clay, the author of Mini-Multitaskers, also agrees with this concept. Her overall main point throughout the article is that Multitasking prevents teens form learning and retaining information. In the article, it is made evident of where she stands. Clay makes it blatantly obvious that she feels as though multitasking has a negative effect on the brain as well as the learning development. Clay uses statistics such as “…According to a 2006 Kaiser Family Foundation …show more content…
With the information from professionals, it makes her statement seem more credible. Psychologist David E. Meyer, PhD, director of the Brain, Cognition and Action Lab at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor said:
Like their adult counterparts, young people often believe multitasking boosts efficiency. But there is no such boost; People who multitask actually take longer to get things done. If a teen is trying to write an essay on Shakespeare while text messaging friends, the back-and-forth can cause "a kind of mental brown-out”. You wind up needing to use the same sorts of mental and physical resources for performing each of the tasks. You 're having to switch back and forth between the two tasks as opposed to really doing them simultaneously."
Using quotes and statements like this is what helped make Clay’s opinion on multitasking seem like more of a concern. This type of information presents a real issue and helps make teens and parents who read the article more aware of the effect of multitasking on the brain and …show more content…
Clay supports the correlation: As multitasking increases, information retained decreases. However, she also implies the causation: Multitasking causes a decrease in the amount of information learned by a teen. Both concepts are supported in the statistics as well as the quotes from psychologists in the article. These concepts also appear in various other articles like: Multi-tasking Adversely Affects Brain 's Learning By UCLA Psychologists , and The Effects of ADHD (Beyond Decoding Accuracy) on Reading Fluency and Comprehension By Dr. E. Mark Mahone, Ph.D., ABPP. Both of these articles express how disorders such as ADHD and ADD are caused by years of multitasking. Studies show that 62% of kids that begin to multitask between 3-7 years old tend to develop ADD or ADHD once the hit their adolescent to teen years (Multitasking
Psych 102-036
19 September 2014
Unit 2
Mini-Multitaskers
Multitasking is something that most teens do in their everyday life. Whether it is during studying time, hangout time, or even family time, teens tend to engage in multiple tasks at the same time. Rebecca A. Clay, the author of Mini-Multitaskers, also agrees with this concept. Her overall main point throughout the article is that Multitasking prevents teens form learning and retaining information. In the article, it is made evident of where she stands. Clay makes it blatantly obvious that she feels as though multitasking has a negative effect on the brain as well as the learning development. Clay uses statistics such as “…According to a 2006 Kaiser Family Foundation …show more content…
With the information from professionals, it makes her statement seem more credible. Psychologist David E. Meyer, PhD, director of the Brain, Cognition and Action Lab at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor said:
Like their adult counterparts, young people often believe multitasking boosts efficiency. But there is no such boost; People who multitask actually take longer to get things done. If a teen is trying to write an essay on Shakespeare while text messaging friends, the back-and-forth can cause "a kind of mental brown-out”. You wind up needing to use the same sorts of mental and physical resources for performing each of the tasks. You 're having to switch back and forth between the two tasks as opposed to really doing them simultaneously."
Using quotes and statements like this is what helped make Clay’s opinion on multitasking seem like more of a concern. This type of information presents a real issue and helps make teens and parents who read the article more aware of the effect of multitasking on the brain and …show more content…
Clay supports the correlation: As multitasking increases, information retained decreases. However, she also implies the causation: Multitasking causes a decrease in the amount of information learned by a teen. Both concepts are supported in the statistics as well as the quotes from psychologists in the article. These concepts also appear in various other articles like: Multi-tasking Adversely Affects Brain 's Learning By UCLA Psychologists , and The Effects of ADHD (Beyond Decoding Accuracy) on Reading Fluency and Comprehension By Dr. E. Mark Mahone, Ph.D., ABPP. Both of these articles express how disorders such as ADHD and ADD are caused by years of multitasking. Studies show that 62% of kids that begin to multitask between 3-7 years old tend to develop ADD or ADHD once the hit their adolescent to teen years (Multitasking