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Lounge / Jail Pinjra => Knowledge => Topic started by: _noXiouS_ on August 22, 2010, 03:14:24 PM
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The concept of continuous partial attention was coined by a researcher named Linda Stone, who first began her work on the idea while working for Microsoft. She noted that many people in the technology industry tended to work with a split focus, concentrating on a top level item while also receiving partial input from a variety of other sources. She coined the term “continuous partial attention” to describe this phenomenon, differentiating it from multi-tasking, where people perform several tasks at once.
You can probably think of a few examples of continuous partial attention in your own life. For example, you may have noticed that social events are often interrupted with ringing cell phones, incoming text messages, or email coming in on hand-held devices. Some people find this offensive, being irritated when people interrupt a conversation to answer a cell phone or deal with a text, while others don't seem to mind, especially among the younger age group.
According to Stone, the cause of continuous partial attention is a desire to not miss out on anything. At a party, for example, someone may scan the crowd to ensure that they don't miss someone they want to see, just as an executive at a meeting checks email to see if a better deal is on offer for a product under discussion, or as teenagers text each other in class. Some people feel that continuous partial attention is simply the modernized form of not paying attention at all, with people focusing on too many things at once to do justice to any one thing.
Stone noted that 18-25 year olds seemed to be champions of continuous partial attention, perhaps because they were raised in an environment and culture where it is not only encouraged, but expected. She also provided numerous examples from the corporate world, where some companies now confiscate communication devices at the door in meetings to avoid the problem of partial attention.
Some people view continuous partial attention as positive, arguing that it increases flow and allows people to work more effectively. Others feel that it is less positive, contributing to stressful, high-geared lifestyles which can lead to health problems, as stress has been linked with a number of health issues, from weight gain to dandruff. It may also make workers less efficient, or reduce the quality of someone's work, depending on his or her work pattern. Critics who view continuous partial attention as a problem have also coined another term, “continuous partial friendships,” to describe the sort of relationships that some people have with each other in the age of continuous partial attention.
I ran across this article, earlier. Just wondering , exactly how continuous partial attention is different from multi-tasking?
Any thoughts?
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I guess both terms r totally different..Multitasking is something which is totally planned.. like we have already planned to do one or more acvities at same time but on the other hand CPA is something unplanned or crisis situation..
For example i am listening drake's Song and answerg ur post , this is something multitasking and if my phone will ring now that will be something related to CPA.. :happy:
Vase i have simple solution solution with my phone.. appa phone vibrator teh rakhida and answer all my calls in the evening.. :happy:
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I wish more people knew what the hell I talk about on PJ, I feel like everytime I utter a word, majority are dumbfounded :loll:
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I guess its the same thing but they gave it a more technical term just to make a big deal out of it.
Multi tasking is doing more than 1 task at the same time and the above refers to the same thing. I am on PJ listening to music and browsing.
I am not a very good multi tasking person I had to turn music off to read this whole paragraph and then reply to it.
I do text while watching movies.
I don't know why did she came up with this new theory :waitin:
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I have to agree with the above :loll:
sometimes i feel like psychologists just pull stuff out of their rear :loll:
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I have to agree with the above :loll:
sometimes i feel like psychologists just pull stuff out of their rear :loll:
These people are just bored! :whew:
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I think Linda needs a new hobby.
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I think Linda needs a new hobby.
agree, should take her golfing. Ah, can't wait for the summer.
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Multitasking of a human mind is just a myth proved on descovery actually brain switch between diffrent tasks so fast that it seems to be a multitasking brain
Nd tis continuous partial attention is caused by high level of consunttration
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Multitasking of a human mind is just a myth proved on descovery actually brain switch between diffrent tasks so fast that it seems to be a multitasking brain
Nd tis continuous partial attention is caused by high level of consunttration
source link plz; something legitimate ... No wikipedia :loll:
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source link plz; something legitimate ... No wikipedia :loll:
no link available m the source mai akhi vekhya te kanni sunya discovery te so je source nu milna ta mainu mill lao :hehe:
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no link available m the source mai akhi vekhya te kanni sunya discovery te so je source nu milna ta mainu mill lao :hehe:
Can you find the video from the Disvovery document?
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Here's an article from Discovery about multi tasking:
Martha Barksdale
It's become the norm in our world to multitask, keeping ourselves insanely busy and even bragging about it. But while you may be able to do several things at once, don't expect to do them well -- especially if you're trying to juggle more than two similar tasks.
In the brain, the prefrontal cortex takes the lead in executing desires, sending a chain of impulses to the posterior of the brain that tell your body what to do to complete the action. This works fine when you have one task to complete. It's OK when you have two -- neurologists at a French biomedical agency discovered that when a second task is added, the brain divides the work between its two hemispheres. But trouble arises when three tasks are scheduled. In these cases, the French test subjects made more mistakes and often forgot one of the tasks [source: Telis].
Even with only two tasks, you might be a bit slower on each than if you tackled them separately. At Carnegie Mellon University, test subjects listened to complex sentences. Next, they compared pairs of figures. The neuroscientists scanned their brains and noted the amount of brain space used while they did both tasks. Then the subjects listened to the sentences and compared the figures at the same time. The amount of brain space used was not twice the amount when they performed the tasks separately. Instead, it was just slightly more than when doing one of the tasks [source: Blakeslee]. The scientists noted that the subjects were a bit slower than when they executed the tasks separately.
Think it’s efficient to listen to a foreign language CD while you're cooking dinner? Maybe not. Studies show that even if we do learn something while multitasking, we don't learn it as well as we would have if we devoted our full attention to it. Studies at UCLA show that when multitasking, areas of the brain necessary for memory retrieval may be occupied by the one task and pass the other task to a different part of the brain. You may learn your vocabulary words, but when it's time to use them, you may not be able to pull them out of your memory.
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i haave got this from life hacker:
Continuous partial attention and multi-tasking are two different attention strategies, motivated by different impulses. When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient... In the case of continuous partial attention, we're motivated by a desire not to miss anything. There's a kind of vigilance that is not characteristic of multi-tasking. With cpa, we feel most alive when we're connected, plugged in and in the know. We constantly SCAN for opportunities—activities or people—in any given moment. With every opportunity we ask, "What can I gain here?"
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So me rite or no rite ??