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An Investigation of Factors Influencing Learning in the Mentally Retarded, and Their Use in the Design of Instructional Materials; Training Procedures and Automation: Effects on MR Performances. Interim Report.

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Seitz, Sue; Goulding, Peggy – 1968

The effects of prompting and confirmation on automated presentation of materials in discrimination learning were studied. Eight pairs of words or pictures were presented to 48 mentally retarded subjects (mean IQ 63, mean chronological age 163.4 months, mean mental age 103.3 months). Each subject's correct responses advanced the program and, in the…

Descriptors: Automation, Cues, Exceptional Child Research, Learning

The Cultural Context of Learning and Thinking: An Exploration in Experimental Anthropology.

Cole, Michael; And Others – 1971

After intensively studying for several years the thinking processes of members of a tribal group in Western Africa, the Kpelle, the authors examine the relation between culture and cognitive development. The following issues are discussed: (1) an analysis of the terms "culture" and "cognition"; (2) an ethnographic description of the Kpelle…

Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Associative Learning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes