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The Sufficient Conditions for Directed Forgetting in Normal and Educable Mentally Retarded Adolescents
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Bray, 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
An Analysis of Short-Term Memory Differences between Retardates and Nonretardates.
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Cohen, Ronald L.; Nealson, Judi – Intelligence, 1979
Retarded subjects were compared with mental- and chronological-age matched controls on serial short-term memory (STM) tasks. Retarded subjects were inferior to the control groups on both primacy and recency items, under two recall conditions. These data are discussed in relation to possible mechanisms underlying IQ-related individual differences…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Differences