Psychology class. Multi-tasking: how to survive in the 21st century

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• Memory

Click the link below to read the article and then answer the questions:

Multi-tasking: how to survive in the 21st century

• Name the parts of the Working Model of Memory

• At the bottom of the article, there are ‘six ways to be a master of multitasking’. Based on your knowledge of the Working Model of Memory, would you adapt or add anything?

• The article talks about the costs and benefits of switching between tasks. How might the Working Model of Memory manage ‘task-switching’?

The article outlines a study by Carson and Moore on ‘rapid task switching’. Answer the following:

• Which experimental design is being used? What are the strengths and limitations of this design?

• What are the independent and dependent variables?

• What might the researchers’ hypothesis have been?

• What level of measurement is being used? And, therefore, which statistical test would be appropriate to test significance?

• Summarise the findings of this study

• What might be the real-world implications of Carson and Moore’s research?

• Using your knowledge of the study and of research methods, what limitations would you raise regarding the findings?

Danny Galbraith, St Bartholomew’s School