Research Has Shown That Media Multitasking

question 94

Multiple Choice

Research has shown that media multitasking

• A) fragments the attention span.
• B) helps train adolescents' brains to attend to more than one task at the same time.
• C) has little effect on teenagers' ability to focus.
• D) helps improve use of explicit memory.

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Definitions:

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