Multitasking: listening to music while studying
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Multitasking is not a foreign word.
But, what is the exact definition of multitasking?
Multitasking is defined as doing two or more things
at a certain period of time
The term originates from computer science,
where it refers to handling parallel processes
that require the same resources
In this video, we will be talking about
Multitasking: listening to music while studying.
Music often accompanied our lives in different ways.
Many people listen to music in our day to day activities
which includes, driving and walking.
In the 21st century,
smartphones and portable players
have made it even easier for us
to listen to music, at any time of the day.
In a survey of 142 participants,
it is found that 90% of students
listen to music while studying.
In another survey of 150 students,
77% of those who listened to music
believes that they studied better when music is being played.
The so called 'Mozart Effect',
is a very famous example
which was believed to improve performance level,
as well as healing and developing of the brain.
The term was first coined by
Alfred Tomatis
who used Mozart's music
as the listening stimulus in his work
attempting to cure a variety of disorders.
The approach has been popularized,
in Don Campbell's book,
'The Mozart Effect'
which is based on an experiment
published in 'Nature',
suggesting that listening to Mozart
temporarily boosted scores on one portion
of the IQ test.
Subsequent studies have revealed
this phenomenon NOT
to be the caused of Mozart
or other classical composers
but by an increase in arousal and mood
because of listening to preferred music.
The arousal and mood hypothesis,
proposes that listening to a liked piece of music
is just one example of a stimulus
that can increase a participants
arousal and mood.
Thus, as long as the participants
performs a task,
such as listening to music that they enjoy
prior to engaging in the focal task,
then arousal is increased and performance improved.
The interplay between reading and listening to music
has been addressed in several studies and
and from different angles.
In many aspects, however,
these studies have yield different and conflicting findings
indicating that reading
to music,
is a very complex and difficult
phenomenon to study.
Recent research, however,
shows that in certain situations,
musical preference does NOT
make a difference
It has been found that
whether someone likes the music or not
performance is equally as poor in terms of serial recall.
But, what is serial recall?
A serial recall task,
requires participants to recall a list of items
in a specific order
which is usually the order in which they were presented
and is probably the most
widely-used short-term memory test in
neuropsychology and psychology in general.
As previously stated,
those students who listen to music while studying
said that music helps them to study better.
But, research has shown that
this is not the only reason why students listen to music while studying.
Students also listen to music while studying,
as it helps them to block
outside noise and this decreases
the disturbance as well as
having a sense of relaxation.
But of course, not everyone
agrees with this and find listening to music
while studying as disturbing.
So, what about you?
Are you the type of person who
listen to music while studying?
or do you find it disturbing as well?