Can We Do it All?

• Although this factor is not mentioned in the question, age will affect the participants abilities because the brain weakens as humans grow older.

• Multitasking will not be as productive because both tasks are competing for focus-—for key efficiency and quality, one task must require less brain power than the other.

Controlled

• Duration

• Sequence

• Room conditions

• Verbal instructions

• Task

• Recorded words

• Voices

• Drawing

Manipulative

• The task condition [multitasking or monotasking.]

• Participant approach.

Responding

• Whether multitasking is as, more, or less efficient as monotasking.

1.Draw

- participants are asked to draw a house. They have 2 miutes to do so, and every 15 seconds we ask them to add a detail like windows, pathaways, brick walls, etc.

2.Listen

- a 2 minute audio of randomized words are played and participants just listen. the audio is the same for all the participants. they do not know the next step.

3.Recall

- 1 minute to write down as many words as they can remember.

4.Draw and listen

- participants do step 1 and step 2 at the same time. the list of words is different than the first one but same across tests.

5. recall

- participants have 1 minute to write down as many words as the can remmeber.

• Participants who strategized to remember the words did well.

• Kids were most confident when writing the words.

• Both genders did equal.

• Participants who did significantly worse on the multitasking test had drawings as good as the monotasking test.

• Participants were more visibly confused during the second test.

• The hypothesis was partially correct.

• Participants did not excel in the multitasking portion of the experiment, however, adults performed better than kids.

• The adult brain was more efficient than the child’s brain, showing that in fact, as human’s age and work more, their multitasking brains develop.

• Multitasking training and practice.

• Efficiency tools on when and how to multitask.

• Multitasking isn’t always bad for the body, but when overdone, it can have negative effects and worsen work quality and efficiency.

• More contestants.

• Controlled amount of people per test.

• Questions for each participant before they are tested [eg., do you plan out your days?]

• AI for recording words.

• Script for instructions.

• Less words and details.