Attentional styles, time evaluation and memory: educational significance

Abstract

Completion of work in a “determined time”, answering a message or the delivery of job before a certain event represent examples of multitasking activities. Multitasking in which a student or worker must estimate the time allowed to perform varied tasks.
The present contribution makes reference in it’s first part, to the principal paradigms and models of temporal elaboration that seek to investigate and explain the role of attention and memory in dual task activities that require an estimate of time. The second part concentrates on an experiment to give to the theory of temporal elaboration. Specifically, what is the importance of the duration of
pause, of the complexity and the materials (letter or number) used in the dual task paradigm. What distroy in the various tasks? Does it actually make a difference what materials are used? What are the implications for future research?