Answer to Question 1
The response should include three potential difficulties consistent with information processing theory. Following are examples of points that a response might include:
Some students may be easily distracted by what other students in the room are doing; this may be especially true for students with learning disabilities or ADHD.
The assignment may exceed students' working memory capacities. There is much to think about when writing an essaynot only effective ways of communicating one's ideas, but also appropriate spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
Students may not have automatized keyboarding skills, putting a further strain on working memory.
Students may not have sufficient information about raccoons in their long-term memories to write a good essay.
Students may have insufficient self-regulation skills to allocate their time appropriately and keep themselves on task.
Answer to Question 2
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A leech, a member of the class Hirudinea.
Operant conditioning, also known as trial-and-error learning.
The interaction between genetics and learning.
Associative Learning
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Structures of class I, class II, and class III mobile genetic elements