Breadth+Biased+vs.+focused+cognitive+control+in+media+multitasking+behaviors

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The notion of media multitasking as to whether one is a high media multitasker or low multitasker is interesting. After reading this article, I wondered if age had anything to do with one’s ability to high media multitasking vs. low media multitasking. The article further states than heavy media multitaskers performed worse on task switching than light media multitaskers. After reading this article, I pondered whether multitasking has anything to do with personality. =====

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In one of my teaching situations, many times an administrator would come to my room and ask me to complete a task, which always involved technology. Usually, it was something that needed completion within a few days. I was always up for a challenge, although, initially, I found it annoying. A fellow co-worker did warn me about the administrator and how they would usually need something of a technology nature completed quickly. =====

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The statement that learning new skills requires higher whereas learning familiar and automatic tasks requires lower cognitive load puts me in the mind of someone learning Linux and who is not a programmer vs. someone who has always used and is familiar with Windows with minimal learning curve involved. In the article, Poldtrack and Foerde discovered that some people lacked the aptitude of being able to learn new things resulting from brains distraction from other tasks. Another point made in the article is that regarding high and low cognitive loads, repetition stimulates activity in the striatum, the segment of the brain that handles repetitive tasks. As a musician, repetition leads to perfection. The task changes with the style of music to be learned/memorized. As a programmer or web designer of these type of projects, there is a degree of repetition and a high degree of creativity that goes along with bringing these assignments to completion. =====