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Peer reviewedGallagher, Joseph W.; And Others – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1973
The study examined the performance of 72 intellectually average children in primary grades and 72 educable mentally retarded adolescents (mean mental age 8 years) on target subsets of work pairs when employed in mixed lists. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Processes, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedPalmer, Michael – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1974
Thirty institutionalized mildly retarded adolescent Ss and 30 matched MA elementary school nonretarded Ss were presented 18 items for five free-recall trials in a study of basic determinants of clustering behavior (the recall of sequences of related items following their random presentation). (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Classification, Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons
MacMillan, Donald L. – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1970
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Learning Processes, Mediation Theory, Mental Retardation
Download full textSeitz, Sue; Sweeney, Janee – 1969
The effects of interspersed trials on prompted (P) and confirmation (C) paired associate learning were studied in 64 institutionalized educable mental retardates. Subjects were instructed to learn eight pairs of pictures which were presented by a slide projector. There were four groups in both the P and C condition. The treatment for these groups…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Intermode Differences, Learning Processes, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedFraas, Louis A. – Journal of Mental Deficiency Research, 1973
Intentional and incidental learning was investigated developmentally and comparatively using a paired associate learning task with 90 educable mentally handicapped or normal, elementary or secondary school Ss. (DB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Exceptional Child Research, Incidental Learning, Intentional Learning
Peer reviewedBurger, Agnes Lin; Blackman, Leonard S. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1976
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)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Processes
Imagery and Verbal Mediation in Paired-Associate Learning of Educable Mentally Retarded Adolescents.
Peer reviewedBurger, Agnes L.; Blackman, L. S. – Journal of Mental Deficiency Research, 1978
Descriptors: Eidetic Imagery, Exceptional Child Education, Learning Processes, Mediation Theory
Milgram, Norman A.; Riedel, Wolfgang – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1969
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Processes, Mental Retardation
Stinnett, Ray D.; Prehm, Herbert J. – 1969
Rote learning and retention performance was studied as a function of method used in original learning and as a function of intellectual level. Sixty educable mentally retarded and 60 mentally normal junior high school students were randomly selected and assigned to one of three treatment groups, each learning to a different criterion, for each…
Descriptors: Educational Methods, Exceptional Child Research, Intelligence Differences, Learning
Associative Learning Strategies Employed by Deaf, Blind, Retarded and Normal Children. Final Report.
Martin, Clessen J. – 1967
Eight experiments studied the following aspects of associative strategies in learning: classification; verbalization at three developmental levels; verbalization by normal and educable children; facilitation of associative learning among educable retardates; effectiveness of familiarization and differentiation training on the successful employment…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Blindness, Cognitive Processes, Exceptional Child Research
