Multitasking

7 important questions on Multitasking

What is media multitasking?

The simultaneous execution of two or more processing activities at the same time.

Who does mediamultitasting? When?

Who: everyone does it and the net generation (we) are the most multitaskers.
When (Salvucci &Taatgen): in "home" study, in college, in class. When frustrated people switch to another task. Threaded cognition: multitasking van successful if "lags" (vertragingen) in activities are distributed and managed. For example: baking a cake: it's good to multitask.

What are the effects of MT?

-Losing skill to focus and maintain concentration
-Lessening attention span
-Lessening time management ability
-More procrastination (uitstelgedrag).
-Reduces student engagement: reduced study time, lower academic performance.
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What are cognitive control effects of MT? (Van der Schuur. Baumgartner, Sumter & Valkenburg, 2015)

-Media multitasking related to sustained control processes and cognitive control, but unrelated to working memory capacity, efficient task switching and response inhibition.

What are academic performance effects?

Media use during academic time negatively related to:
-Academic outcomes
-Study behavior
-Perceived learning.

What are socioemotional effects?

Media multitasking negatively related to:
-Emotional functioning (depression, anxiety)
-Sleep

Not related to social success.

What are the effects of second screening and media effects? (Van Cauwenberge et al., 2014)

Using a mobile device while watching TV news, they did an experiment with 85 Belgian university students.

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