I have read the exciting article about multitasking from a nice-catchy blog of wagenugraha. He offered one rhetoric-question at the beginning of the article. Have you ever experienced when you're doing a task then suddenly there was a disturbance, such as a sudden phone or another tasks that must be addressed immediately ?. Thereafter you feel pretty tiring due to a large energy is needs to return to the original task.
A few days ago, I got another interesting article on mutitasking from motherjones.com The article concerning habits of doing many tasks at one time. Kevin Drum, the writer, explain over multitasking habits of people in these days, e.g., some people contantly checking messages while they socializing with someone else.
Drum told a complaint from his friend, a professor of university. A half of his 60 student of general physics class sits in the back of the room on phone or laptop. The “good” students work on assigments for next classes, but the bad ones are busy with facebook comments.
There are convincing evidences that entrenched multitasking has a long lasting negative effects on cognitive function. According to medical-dictionary, cognitive function is an intellectual process by which one becomes aware of, perceives, or comprehends ideas. It involves all aspects of perception, thinking, reasoning, and remembering.
Clifford Nass, a psychologist from Stanford shown that multitaskers are bad at neither multitasking nor every individual one of the tasks. So, they not just bad at multitasking.
Clifford Nass, a psychologist from Stanford shown that multitaskers are bad at neither multitasking nor every individual one of the tasks. So, they not just bad at multitasking.
Actually Nass and his colleague were absolutely shocked with the result of the study. The multitaskers are terrible at every aspect of multitasking. They’re bad at passing irrelevant information, fail to keeping information nicely and well organized, and also awkward at switching from one task to another.