Multitasking Research Paper

Anna Fudenberg Period 4
HBS Semester 1 Essay
There are a few examples of hormones controlling the release of other hormones in the body. The first example is the hypothalamus working with the pituitary gland. The hypothalamus is located superior to the pituitary. Only after the hypothalamus prompts the pituitary gland does it hinder or stimulate the production of a hormone. One of these cases in which the hypothalamus and pituitary gland work together is in the releasing of the thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH). TSH causes the thyroid to release triiodothyronine and thyroxine also known as T3 and T4. The second example of hormones controlling the release of other hormones is the adrenocorticotropic hormone. The adrenocorticotropic hormone is …show more content…
Reflexes have the quickest reaction time as it does not have to go all the way to the brain. Next is reactions which do not require much thought. However, as you go up the chain from here in processes that require more thought, it takes longer. Multitasking must fall in one of the higher chains that include longer processing time in the brain. The brain has to be thinking about many things at once during multitasking. Therefore, multitasking must take longer to process things in the brain and probably takes twice as long rather than …show more content…
These included astigmatism and blind spot, visual acuity, color vision, accommodation, afterimage, depth perception, peripheral vision, and visual mapping, and illusions. The astigmatism test used dark lines surrounding a circle to determine the presence of astigmatism. The students’ blind spots were determined using a dot and an “x” on a piece of paper. They would start at arm’s length and slowly bring it closer, while starting at the x until the dot disappeared; the point in which dot disappeared was recorded. The visual acuity test allows one to see if one has myopia, hyperopia or if they are emmetropic. This is determined by reading a chart from a certain distance away with each eye and then both together. For the color vision station, students were given a certain amount of time to match colored pieces of yarn to their pair in a book. For accommodation of the eye, the lens changes shape with help from ciliary muscles. We learned about this by focusing on one object in the distance and then switching to one close to us. In the afterimage station, we saw what happens when our cones get fatigued. The effect of this was demonstrated by holding red and green vinyl up to our eyes and staring into the light for a period of time. Next, we quickly switched to a piece of white paper and blinked a few times. By doing this we were able to see a flash of red or green because the cones in our eyes became

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