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Phelan, Heather L.; Filliter, Jillian H.; Johnson, Shannon A. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2011
According to the Task Support Hypothesis (TSH; Bowler et al. in Neuropsychologia 35:65-70, 1997) individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) perform more similarly to their typically developing peers on learning and memory tasks when provided with external support at retrieval. We administered the California Verbal Learning Test-Children's…
Descriptors: Autism, Verbal Learning, Memory, Memorization
Schultz, Charles B.; And Others – 1977
Recall lists were presented to 40 black lower class and 40 white middle class children in this experiment. The purpose of the study was to examine a possible explanation of the relatively poor performance of black and lower class children on tasks requiring abstract learning abilities. It was reasoned that the threshold for the production of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Black Students, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes