Argumentative Analysis

After all, if a person was to learn about or concentrate on a different subject every few minutes, it would be nearly impossible to retain and remember the information. As one study discovered, "multitasking adversely affects how you learn. Even if you learn while multitasking, that learning is less flexible and more specialized, so you cannot retrieve the information as easily (Rosen 412)." Most people who multitask become so distracted by the amount of information they are trying to obtain at one time that it is actually causing the opposite effect. Multitasking makes it harder to distinguish the difference or importance between individual tasks. This means that many people either dismiss all the information gain as redundant or clump all knowledge, unnecessary and essential, together.

Edwards, Erika, and Maggie Fox. "Teens Spend 'Astounding' Nine Hours a Day in Front of Screens: Researchers." NBCNews.com. NBCUniversal News Group, 03 Nov. 2015. Web. 31 Aug. 2017.

First of all, multitasking cannot be effectively done by teens because they can’t multitask without compromising the quality of their work. David Meyer, director of the Brain, Cognition, and Action Laboratory at the University of Michigan said “If parts of the brain are less active when someone is multitasking it could be especially detrimental for teens who are still developing their ability to think and analyze info.¨ Therefore, teens who multitask might be developing bad habits for life. Also, according to James Steyer, CEO of Common Sense Media, if you simply can have two conversations at once, you can´t concentrate on more than one thing well. This piece of evidence proves that if we can't multitask on one thing then how can we multitask on another?

Many people think that they can multitask, but they are wrong. When a human thinks they are multitasking, they are actually just switching their attention between different activities. The human brain is not made to focus on more than one thing at a time. When bombarded with things to do, the brain switches from task to task but does not use its full potential to complete any of the tasks. It feels good to get things done, but by switching from task to task the effort and quality used on each task is lowered. Since the brain is not made to focus on multiple things, effort and quality go down, so it may be smart to get things done better by taking more time to complete it. As a science class, we conducted different experiments to see whether or not the students in our class could multitask. Of the ten people we tested, five people answered more multiplication facts correctly with music playing while they tested, four people answered less correctly, and one person answered the same amount correctly. Although a majority of of test subjects did better, the other groups did not have similar results. Also, scientific research shows evidence that the brain cannot do multiple things at once. Listening to music might not have been a smart activity to do because it can be done without thought or effort, but the results

In general in classical psychology, it is said to be impossible to be effective in multitasking. However, the students believe that they are capable, and technology has increased their need to multitask. A study was conducted in order to determine how well the students can switch between tasks and not become distracted. Most of the students believed that they were effective in multitasking, yet the test results suggested differently. The test results showed that one student was actually significantly slower when switching between tasks, rather than capable of completing all tasks consistently. The professionals believe that multitasking will create minds that are unable to think well and clearly. The abundant access to technology allows our distractions to get in the way of the positive aspects of technology. Based of data from studies, it is shown that most kids and teenagers are using over 50 hours a week on technological devices, thus leading to issues with how their brain develops. The way a child chooses to spend most of their free time, it will have a significant impact on how their brain will function in the future as an

Another consideration among researchers when looking at the effects of multitasking is that it actually has a positive effect on a small percentage of people that are known as supertaskers. There have been many studies done on the critical effects it has on the brain, but what good does it do? Hammond wrote an article on how normal people don’t get the same benefits as supertaskers have. Hammond reported that “even if you’re not a supertasker, multi-tasking by surfing the web at the same time as answering emails, playing computer games, or listening to music could bring another benefit” (4). She includes that “people who regularly used three or more different media at a time were better at integrating the information that came in through their

According to the U.S department of Health & Human Services, Children now spend more than seven and a half hours in front of a screen.

Researchers at Brown University found that some people can actually multitask quite well under certain conditions. Study participants were asked to do two tasks at once in a computer exercise. Later, when the participants were asked to perform only one of the tasks, they had difficulty adjusting. They actually did better when they had to multitask. Even when the researchers introduced a completely new task along with a familiar one, the multitaskers did well. Researchers in Australia gave people training in how to multitask. Then they compared their work to the work of people who did not have training. The people who had training in multitasking improved in their work much more than the people who did not have training. Success at multitasking may depend on how we learn to perform

The average teen spends 53 hours i front of a screen. Devices have caused a shorter intention span from twelve to five minutes. Screen free week is beneficial because we lean more and better without technology, and it would not cause a distraction to peoples lives. Technology is bad for our everyday

children spending an average of more than 7.5 hours of screen time daily. Clearly, showing they

When Jack London said “The proper function of man is to live, not exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time” he meant that you should live life and do fun stuff not just exist and waist your time, but use it wisely. For example if you want to do an extreme sport that could make your life more meaningful and make your life more worthy than a person that’s never done an extreme sport. You’re using your time more wisely by doing a extreme sport than just staying at home and sleeping. That could be a story that you could always remember, if you failed you could still tell people you attempted it which is still an accomplishment.

Standard cognitive science is the way we go about studying thought or mental organization from means such as psychology or computers. Embodied cognition is similar, but instead takes into consideration how the environment plays a role in the development of cognitive progression. Tim Crane and Lawrence Shapiro, through their text, both highlight the importance of each type of cognitive approach. Where Crane presents cognitive science to revolve around computational processes inside the brain, Shapiro presents examples for embodied cognition to either be supplemental or incorrect in comparison to the standard cognitive approach. Shapiro does so by laying out three important hypotheses: conceptualization, replacement, and constitution. The conceptualization

The second study explained on this by identifying the repeat letter from sequences of alphabetical letters. The high multitaskers still underperformed low multitaskers because they kept

Many philosophers favor rural walking over urban because the release of constraints allows for more open thinking. One critic, Solnit, defined these constraints as the built walkways and buildings of a city.

When we open our eyes and see why kids are really engaging on the television or laptop screens. According to "Blame Society Not The Screen Time" by Danah Boyd. Principal researcher at Microsoft research, "This is Catch-22 that we've trapped todays youth in. We've locked them indoors because we see the physical world as more dangerous than ever before, even though by almost every measure, we live in the safest society to date, we put unprecedented demands on our kids, making them out with structured activities, homework and heavy expectations" (Boyd). When a teacher hands out his students a research paper that’s 10 pages long and the students have to use sources, then obviously the student will spend lots of time on the internet searching for the sources that will help them keep their grade. Finland and the Netherlands focus more on a students happiness and they do it one way by handing out almost no homework. They outperform the u.s. in education consistently. Over in the u.s. we have students glued to screens because there is so much homework now a days that require students to use the internet for answers or to even be able to do the