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Peer reviewedKleban, Morton H.; And Others – Journal of Gerontology, 1976
Behavioral observations were conducted on aged mentally impaired females in an institutional environment on a weekly basis for a two-year period. Half the subjects remained stable in the level of their behavioral functioning. Stable subjects evidenced less serious medical conditions, had better comprehension of their situations and were more…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Females, Gerontology, Institutionalized Persons
Peer reviewedTognoli, Jerome; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1978
Behavioral tracking observations of 14 adult male residents in a school for the mentally retarded were made in an enriched and deprived setting on the ward. (Author)
Descriptors: Adults, Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Environmental Influences
Peer reviewedButcher, R. E.; And Others – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1971
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Mental Retardation, Minimal Brain Dysfunction
Peer reviewedRago, William V., Jr. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1978
Descriptors: Adults, Aggression, Behavior Patterns, Followup Studies
Smeets, Paul M. – Training School Bulletin, 1972
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Behavior Patterns, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedCooper, Joel B.; Richmond, Bert O. – Psychology in the Schools, 1975
Examines the relationships between intelligence, creativity, and the performance of EMR pupils as rated by their teachers. For this group of 217 subjects, equally distributed among black, white, male, and female, creativity appears to be as important as intelligence, or more so, in determining their rated performance scores. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Creativity, Evaluation Criteria, Intelligence
Peer reviewedRago, William V., Jr.; And Others – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1978
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Environmental Influences, Facilities
Gibbons, Frederick X.; Gibbons, Barbara N. – 1979
The effects of labels, "mentally retarded" and "institutionalized" on the evaluations and causal attributions of nonretarded persons, and on the social distance preferences of EMR persons, were assessed. In addition, each group was asked to predict the likelihood of a labeled (mentally retarded) or a nonlabeled target person achieving success at a…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Expectation
Thompson, Edward H., Jr.; And Others – 1978
Feelings and attitudes were investigated among family members with mentally ill relatives whose treatment delivery system was being "deinstitutionalized" or moved from hospital-based treatment to community-based treatment. Subjects (N=125) were interviewed at home by either mental health professionals or professional interviewers. Results…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Coping, Family Attitudes
