Which of the Following Is False About Modern Day Multi-Tasking

question 98

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is false about modern day multi-tasking?

• A)People tend to overestimate their own ability to multi-task.
• B)Multi-tasking results in doing all the tasks less well than if we did them one at a time.
• C)There is really no more multi-tasking going on today than there was a decade ago.
• D)Our brains are not evolutionarily designed for the type of multi-tasking that is common today.

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Definitions:

Frequency

The rate at which something occurs over a particular period of time or in a given sample, often used to describe the number of waves that pass a fixed point in a specific time in physics.

Electrochemical Transmission

It refers to the process by which nerve cells communicate with each other through the exchange of chemical messengers across a synapse, facilitated by electrical impulses.

Auditory Pathway

The series of structures and processes through which sound waves are transformed into electrical signals in the brain, enabling hearing.

Visual Pathway

A series of brain structures through which visual information from the environment is processed.