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60. Maximum Concentration: "Attention Professor" Stefan Van der Stigchel

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The Impact of Concentration and Differing Attension on Learning

Students that are distracted during learning perform worse compared to students that are able to learn without distractions. The ideal type of concentration is if you have the same material on the workbench in your working memory, to perform all these actions for a longer period of time. Every time you switch between tasks, it takes time, and you're prone to make errors. And also importantly, the stress system is activated. If you want to interact with social mediates, a lot better to do it later in the day, give yourself a sort of reward than to try to do two things at the same time.

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