The myth of multitasking

1. Why is multitasking considered by many psychologists to be a myth?
Many psychologist considered multitasking a myth, because it is probably impossible to make more than 1 thing at a time. It is impossible to focus your attention in different things. Many people think that they are really doing multitasking, but what the psychologists have determined is that people don't really multitask, but what they really do is jump from one task to another.

2. To what does the term "response selection bottleneck" refer?
The term "response selection bottleneck" refers when the brain is forced to respond to several stimuli at once, in a result task-switching leads to time lost as the brain determines which task to perform. In other words the brain loses time switching from task to task, trying to do all the task at once.

3. David Meyer has found that multitasking contributes to the release of stress hormones and adrenaline. Why is this important?
The psychologist David Meyer said that people can learn to task switch if they keep practicing, he also said that people can be much faster in making several task at a time. This is important because he says that when people are doing several task at a time produces stress hormones, and adrenaline, and this can cause long-term health problems, and the loss of short-term memory.

4. Explain what Russell Podrack found regarding multitasking.
Russell Podrack discovered that multitasking adversely affects how you learn. He said that even if you learn while multitasking, the learning is not to good, and more specialized. His experiments says that people use different areas of the brain for learning, and storing new information when they are distracted.

5. What does the author conclude could happen to our culture as a result of increased multitasking?
That multitasking can help but really you are not learining nothing. The author says that attention rationed out among many competing tasks, their culture may gain in information, but it will surely weaken in wisdom.