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Peer reviewedEllis, Norman R.; Allison, Pamela – Intelligence, 1988
Ninety-six mildly mentally retarded persons and 96 nonretarded college students estimated the frequency of occurrence of words and pictures in a study test paradigm. Frequency estimates were equal for words, but the nonretarded subjects were superior in accuracy on pictorial items. This finding points to an encoding deficiency attributed to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Encoding (Psychology), Memory
