The purpose of this assignment is for you have the opportunity to engage in a divided attention demonstration and to reflect on some of the consequences of attempting to perform more than one task at a time.
The activity can be found on the “Chapter 10 Part 2†page of this week’s module under “Divided Attentionâ€. There are two parts of the activity, and together they should take no more than 5 minutes or so.
After completing the activity, answer the following questions:
1. How did your performance differ (or stay the same) for the second part of the activity compared to the first? Discuss this in a few sentences, reporting any observations you made when comparing your performance on these across the two trials. Try to think of at least 3 different ways your performance differed. (3 pts)
2. Discuss how your experience was different across the two trials. (3 pts)
3. How does this activity simulate divided attention? (4 pts)