Jordan Maxwell
ENG 1020
Professor Harmon
3/21/15
Annotation #1
Multitasking gives us the ability to do two activities at once. This article became very interesting to me because Elizabeth Helder and John Shaughnessy both Psychologist developed multitasking elements that controls retrievals as it occurs. In one of their experiences, they made a situation with three to five addition problems, and participants learned face names of pairs that were either presented once or three times or in a uniform retrieval schedule. Meanwhile, during the whole activity they noticed the people were multitasking because they were focused all things taking place at one time. Distributed retrieval was effected through this process because it allowed them to restore and recall the information that they were put in the process to do. The other experience was they incorporated video into multitasking which gave them the opportunity to learn social situations while in high level control. This self-generated retrievals while multitasking was greater than the increase that was found with experimenter-controlled retrievals while multitasking. The whole experience was based on students generally multitasking to handling multiple situations in the real word.
Jordan Cassidy 