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Peer reviewedBray, Norman W.; And Others – Intelligence, 1978
A directed forgetting task was used in an investigation of the conditions under which normal and educable mentally retarded junior high school students would disregard irrelevant information. Results showed that irrelevant information in memory interfered with the performance of only the retarded group, when given a minimal explanation of the…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Cues, Intelligence Differences, Junior High Schools
