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multiple-task performance

multiple-task performance

a scenario in which a person must perform two or more tasks either simultaneously or contemporaneously. Success will depend on the degree to which the person can divide his or her attentional resources between tasks. See multiple-resource model; unitary-resource model. See also performance-operating characteristic.

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