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Stimulus Overselectivity by Mentally Retarded Adolescents: Effects of Pretraining on Cue Identification.
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Meisel, C. Julius – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1981
The results offered little support for the hypothesis that teaching severely retarded learners to label stimuli would reduce the likelihood of stimulus overselectivity. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Discrimination Learning, Severe Mental Retardation, Visual Discrimination
Effects of Stimulus-Response Variables on the Choice Reaction Time of Mildly Retarded Adults
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Nettelbeck, T.; Brewer, N. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1976
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation
Stimulus Overselectivity: A Common Feature in Autism and Mental Retardation
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Lovaas, O. Ivar; Wilhelm, Hannelore – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1976
Overselective attention in discrimination between picture cards was investigated with three groups of children with different IQ levels: 10 severely retarded (IQ = 29 - 51, CA = 9.6 - 18 years), 10 moderately retarded (IQ = 56 - 85, CA = 12.8 - 16.3 years), and 10 non-retarded (CA = 10 - 12 years). (Author/IM)
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Secondary Education