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Nelson, Charles A.; Dolgin, Kim G. – Child Development, 1985
Examined seven-month-old infants' perceptions of happy and fearful facial expressions. Infants could generalize discrimination of expressions across male and female faces if first familiarized with happy faces. Infants tended to look longer at fear faces than at happy faces. Preferential responding was not specific to any individual face.…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Facial Expressions, Fear, Generalization

Dube, William V.; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1993
An assessment of identity matching to sample with 2-dimensional forms was conducted with 44 subjects with moderate and severe intellectual disabilities. Overall, generalized identity matching was demonstrated in 34 of 44 subjects, including 7 of 16 individuals with mental age scores below 3.0 years. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Generalization, Moderate Mental Retardation, Severe Mental Retardation

Karsh, Kathryn G.; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1994
Sixteen individuals (ages 7-18) with moderate or severe mental retardation were taught to identify 2 comparative discriminations by a static or dynamic presentation procedure. No differences in percentage of unprompted correct responses were found between the two procedures in training, generalization, or maintenance. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Generalization, Instructional Effectiveness

Repp, Alan C.; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1990
The study compared the task demonstration model and the standard prompting hierarchy in training 8 persons (ages 16-21) with moderate or severe mental retardation on a discrimination task. The task demonstration model was found to be superior during both training and generalization phases. (DB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cues, Demonstrations (Educational), Discrimination Learning

Doyle, Patricia Munson; And Others – Journal of Special Education, 1996
Four students (ages seven to nine) with moderate mental retardation were successfully taught to name photographs of foods using a progressive time delay procedure. Presentation of the supermarket grocery department as part of the discriminative stimulus was effective in increasing the percentage of correct responding. Some generalization occurred…
Descriptors: Classification, Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Discrimination Learning, Elementary Education