Media multitasking and failures of attention in everyday life
| Autor: | Daniel Smilek, David R. Thomson, James Allan Cheyne, Brandon C. W. Ralph |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Male Communications Media Credence Psychological research Attentional control Experimental and Cognitive Psychology General Medicine Positive correlation Executive Function Young Adult Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Mind-wandering Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Human multitasking Attention Female Attention switching Everyday life Psychology Psychomotor Performance Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychological Research. 78:661-669 |
| ISSN: | 1430-2772 0340-0727 |
| Popis: | Using a series of online self-report measures, we examine media multitasking, a particularly pervasive form of multitasking, and its relations to three aspects of everyday attention: (1) failures of attention and cognitive errors (2) mind wandering, and (3) attentional control with an emphasis on attentional switching and distractibility. We observed a positive correlation between levels of media multitasking and self-reports of attentional failures, as well as with reports of both spontaneous and deliberate mind wandering. No correlation was observed between media multitasking and self-reported memory failures, lending credence to the hypothesis that media multitasking may be specifically related to problems of inattention, rather than cognitive errors in general. Furthermore, media multitasking was not related with self-reports of difficulties in attention switching or distractibility. We offer a plausible causal structural model assessing both direct and indirect effects among media multitasking, attentional failures, mind wandering, and cognitive errors, with the heuristic goal of constraining and motivating theories of the effects of media multitasking on inattention. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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