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Peer reviewedWacker, David P.; Greenebaum, Ferris T. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1984
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…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Generalization, Learning Processes, Moderate Mental Retardation
