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Read the passage given below and answer the questions / complete the statements that follow by choosing the most appropriate options out of the given ones.
1. The term 'multitasking' originated as computer jargon for the situations when the central processing unit switches back and forth between different programs. While the human capacity for simultaneously handling multiple tasks has been discussed and studied for centuries, the book is far from closed on how well we can or can't do it
2. Let us look at a fairly common workplace scenario: writing an email to one colleague, while talking on the phone to another. As you are talking, you have temporarily put the skills needed to type (spelling, grammar, manipulating your fingers across the keyboard) on hold. When you turn your attention back to the computer, you then suspend the etiquette of conversation (which may leave your co-worker to ask, "Are you still there?"). So we are not really doing these things simultaneously. "It looks like multitasking is not taking place. We do one task, then we do another," says Pierre Jolicoeur, the research Chairperson in Experimental Cognitive Science at the University of Montreal, Canada, who studies how the human brain handles multiple tasks. "Task switching" is probably a more accurate description, and though the switch may occur in a fraction of second, there is an associated task-switch cost, the amount of time lost with each switch.
3. "As we try to do more and more things in less and less time," often error creeps in, we call that a speed accuracy trade-off", says Jolicoeur.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions / complete the statements that follow by choosing the most appropriate options out of the given ones.
1. The term 'multitasking' originated as computer jargon for the situations when the central processing unit switches back and forth between different programs. While the human capacity for simultaneously handling multiple tasks has been discussed and studied for centuries, the book is far from closed on how well we can or can't do it
2. Let us look at a fairly common workplace scenario: writing an email to one colleague, while talking on the phone to another. As you are talking, you have temporarily put the skills needed to type (spelling, grammar, manipulating your fingers across the keyboard) on hold. When you turn your attention back to the computer, you then suspend the etiquette of conversation (which may leave your co-worker to ask, "Are you still there?"). So we are not really doing these things simultaneously. "It looks like multitasking is not taking place. We do one task, then we do another," says Pierre Jolicoeur, the research Chairperson in Experimental Cognitive Science at the University of Montreal, Canada, who studies how the human brain handles multiple tasks. "Task switching" is probably a more accurate description, and though the switch may occur in a fraction of second, there is an associated task-switch cost, the amount of time lost with each switch.
3. "As we try to do more and more things in less and less time," often error creeps in, we call that a speed accuracy trade-off", says Jolicoeur.
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