A modified discrimination reversal task was employed to assess the quality of learning of severely retarded adolescents. In comparison to earlier findings with nonhuman primates, results were interpreted as indicative of mediational learning processes. (Author)

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

Pretest measures of paired-associate learning and mediational skill were obtained on 36 educable mentally retarded children in primary grades, after which the children were assigned in groups of 12 to an intentional training condition, an observational learning condition, and a control group condition. (Author/MC)

Three experiments assessed the relative effectiveness of an imagery mnemonic on the paired-associate learning of 24 nonretarded and 24 educable mentally retarded adolescents. (Author/MC)

The ability of 45 educable mentally retarded children (mean CA-11 years) to acquire and retain a mediational strategy for paired associate learning was demonstrated by a training procedure which consisted of the sequencing of consecutive lists under varying degrees of mediational facilitation. (Author/CL)