Ms.Gromberg taught her students how to use the CAPS strategy for reading literature.Teo learned the strategy,but it takes extra time.As he reads the assignment for tomorrow,Teo wants to hurry and decides to skip the strategy.He hopes Ms.Gromberg doesn't give a quiz tomorrow.Teo's situation is an example of:
A)a heuristic.
B)analogical thinking.
C)distributed practice.
D)production deficiency.

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Teo is experiencing production deficiency, which is the inability to apply a newly learned strategy in a fluent and automatic manner. He is choosing to skip the strategy and not apply it, despite knowing it, in order to save time.

MsGromberg Taught Her Students How to Use the CAPS Strategy