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Peer reviewedNigro, Georgia N.; Roak, Rebecca M. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1987
Memory automaticity for spatial location was evaluated with 14 mildly retarded adults and 14 nonretarded adults under two instructional conditions: intentional or incidental. Intention to encode spatial location had no effect on recall for either group and retarded and nonretarded subjects did not differ in recall of spatial location. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Incidental Learning, Intentional Learning, Memory
Jones, Robert S. P.; Vaughan, Francis L.; Roberts, Mary – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2002
Comparison for memory for spatial location of 30 persons with and 30 persons without mental retardation found the control group recalled more intentionally learned than incidentally learned locations. The experimental group performed better after incidental learning than after intentional learning and scored as highly as controls on incidental…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Cognitive Mapping, Incidental Learning
