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Peer reviewedBray, Norman W.; And Others – Intelligence, 1982
The influence of task explanation on strategy transfer was studied. When educable mentally retarded adolescents were trained to rehearse and given a minimal explanation of a directed forgetting task, the majority were found to maintain the strategy on trials identical to rehearsal, but they failed to generalize the strategy in other trials.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Generalization, Mental Retardation
