Ask people if they are good at multitasking and chances are they’ll say “yes”. Two things to note about this: Any time multiple demands compete for attention (interference) we have…
Category: Distraction
Minimizing Distractions, Minimizing “Multitasking”
We know multitasking isn’t possible. We know distractions compete for attention, and failure to attend to learning completely derails any hope of future retrieval. In fact, as Michelle Miller states in…
Myths of Multitasking
More news in the department of “People are Notoriously Wrong about Themselves”, this time under the subheading of distraction and multitasking. Distractions are not the same as multitasking, but they do…