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Reed, Phil; Savile, Amy; Truzoli, Roberto – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Stimulus over-selectivity is a phenomenon often displayed by individuals with many forms of developmental and intellectual disabilities, and also by individuals lacking such disabilities who are under cognitive strain. It occurs when only one of potentially many aspects of the environment controls behavior. Adult participants were trained and…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Mental Retardation, Discrimination Learning, Cognitive Processes

Bryant, Jeffrey T.; And Others – American Journal of Mental Retardation, 1988
Four of eight low-functioning, developmentally delayed preschool children initially failed to demonstrate expected oddity responding. In the context of a multiple baseline across-subject design, each of the previously unsuccessful children demonstrated significant increases in the percentage of correct oddity responses immediately upon…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Developmental Disabilities, Discrimination Learning

Maydak, Michael; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1995
This study examined the matching and sequencing of quantities, numerals, and arbitrary forms by two individuals with mental retardation. Results showed that sequence training did not readily lead to new matching performances, unlike prior research with college students. Instead, training in matching to sample yielded emergent sequence production…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Developmental Disabilities