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Irvin, Larry K. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1976
Evaluated was the use of easy to hard visual discrimination vocational training procedures with 24 institutionalized trainable mentally retarded Ss (16-43 years old). (PT)
Descriptors: Adults, Discrimination Learning, Institutionalized Persons, Learning Processes
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Direct linkFiser, Jozsef; Aslin, Richard N. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2005
The authors investigated how human adults encode and remember parts of multielement scenes composed of recursively embedded visual shape combinations. The authors found that shape combinations that are parts of larger configurations are less well remembered than shape combinations of the same kind that are not embedded. Combined with basic…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Visual Learning, Adults, Visual Stimuli
Richards, David F.; Williams, W. Larry; Follette, William C. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2002
Scores on the Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities (ABLA), Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, and the Wechsler Intelligences Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) were obtained for 30 adults with mental retardation. Correlations between the Vineland domains and ABLA were all significant. No participants performing below ABLA Level 6 were testable on the…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Adults, Auditory Discrimination, Behavior Rating Scales
