Saying "Goodbye" to mom and then "Guten tag" to your teacher, or managing to ask for a crayola roja instead of a red crayon, requires skills called "inhibition" and "task switching".

道别时对妈妈说 “Goodbye”，对老师说 “Guten tag”，或者要红色蜡笔时不说 “red crayon”，而说 “crayola roja”，这都需要调动“约束任务”和“切换任务”的技能。

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This is due to extra task switching.

这主要是由于额外的任务转换。

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In an ideal world, there would be limited task switching.

在一个理想的世界中，有有限的任务切换。

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Looked at closely, though, this activity appears to be more like rapid task switching than multitasking.

FORBES: Multitasking: Good Or Bad?

Rapid task switching, which may look like multitasking, is common and required for many types of activity.

FORBES: Multitasking: Good Or Bad?

Some of this activity is rapid task switching, and some is real parallelism.

FORBES: Multitasking: Good Or Bad?