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Semmel, Melvyn I.; Bennett, Stanley W. – 1968
Four types of sentences differing in grammaticalness and amount of association between component words were presented to 80 educable mentally retarded children for recall after varying delay intervals. The children (all male and between the ages of nine and 14) sat quietly during the delay intervals of named numbers from a memory drum. The results…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Handicapped Children, Memory, Mental Retardation
Miron, Murray S.; And Others – 1967
In perceiving speech, a hearer may divide the utterance into predictable units. In the present investigation of these units, an alleged phenomenon (the resistance of the hearer to perceive extraneous auditory stimuli) was employed. It was argued that this resistance caused the hearer to perceive the irrelevant stimulus, if at all, primarily at the…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Children, Grade 2