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Peer reviewedWalz, Nicolay Chertoff; Benson, Betsey A. – Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 1998
A study investigated whether 73 adults with mental retardation had difficulty understanding emotion-descriptive concepts and whether that difficulty can be attributed to difficulty with abstract concepts. Participants performed better on nonemotion than emotion concepts measures. There were no differences between abstract and nonabstract concepts…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Aggression, Cognitive Ability
