Three profoundly retarded adults who were taught action-object responses learned the verbal elements in the instructions they were directly taught and responded to these elements in novel recombined instructions. (Author/CL)

Results revealed a significant Intelligence x Frequency interaction, which indicated that the retarded group exhibited an incidential learning deficit but only under the high frequency condition. A possible explanation for this finding was discussed within the context of depth of processing. (Author)

Twelve mentally retarded and 12 nonretarded adults were compared in a Brown-Peterson short-term memory task for the retention of words and pictures over intervals up to 30 seconds. The retarded subjects forgot more rapidly over the initial 10 seconds. They also retained pictures better than they did words. (Author/DB)

The effectiveness of a program, varying in presentation format, in promoting the acquisition and generalization of a verbal abstraction strategy was evaluated for 80 mildly retarded Ss (mean age 12 to 14 years). Although the acquisition and near generalization of the verbal abstraction strategy was advanced, no far generalization was observed.…

The effectiveness of strategy training programs that differed in the degree of subject self management required on the verbal abstraction performance of 80 educable mentally retarded children and adolescents was compared. In terms of acquisition, all three training conditions, irrespective of the degree of self management required, were superior…

Investigated with 40 trainable mentally retarded children was the use of instructional modeling to teach visual and verbal mediation skills. (Author)

Mentally retarded and nonretarded children (N=18 each) of equal mental age read lists of nine nouns presented simultaneously in a horizontal format. Recall of items when isolated was reliably higher than when not isolated for both groups. (Author/CL)

Twenty mentally retarded children (mean age 10 years) and 40 nonretarded children (grades 2 and 5) learned pairs of pictures in a single-function order (terms of each pair were in the same position throughout) or in a double-function order (all items were re-paired). (Author)

Seven mentally retarded adolescents received either verbal or nonverbal training on a shape-sorting task within a multiple baseline design. Both training sequences resulted in the successful acquisition of the target performance, but only the verbal training sequence facilitated generalization of performance to a novel shape and to a new…

The nature of the modality-specific effects of rehearsal training for serial recall was explored with 96 retarded children and adolescents. (Author)