#382 Training

Training does not improve the ability to ___ . In 2009 Eyal Ophir, and then at Stanford University, and his colleagues discovered that multitasking on the Internet paradoxically makes users less effective at ___ from one task to another. They are less able to ___ their attention and are too vulnerable to distractions. Consequently, even members of the "digital native" generation are unlikely to develop the cognitive ___ needed to divide their time between various tasks or to instantly jump from one activity to another. In other words, digital multitasking does little more than produce a dangerous illusion of ___ .