Evaluate whether it is possible to perform successfully two tasks at the same time.

Cognitive Psychology

1. Evaluate whether it is possible to perform successfully two tasks at the same time.

When we think about concentrating on the performance of a task, our aim is to focus our attention on what mental or physical attributes are needed in order to perform that task successfully. Attention is essential to human performance. People are constantly under the pressure to perform two tasks at the same time. Inevitably at one stage in your life you will here the phrase “I can’t do to things at once”. Why is this the case, what reason does that person give. Possibly they are saying that it is hard to concentrate on both tasks at the same time. It’s probable however that the person saying this has at one stage, performed two tasks at the same time before. Or have they? Is the ability to drive a car and speak on a mobile phone the ability to perform two tasks at the same time, or if two tasks are being performed do we alternate our attention between the two task ...