Thirty students with learning disabilities (LDs) performed less competently on five information-processing steps than did average-achieving students. Compared to average and low achieving students, LD subjects exhibited a unique problem in the encoding of social information and in their tendency to select incompetent self-generated solutions to…

This article reviews research on the influence of affect on thoughts, cognition, and behavior of students with learning disabilities and finds that induced positive affect leads to more accurate performance on math, greater learning of new vocabulary, and better performance on new learning tasks. (Author/DB)