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Peer reviewedWalz, Nicolay Chertoff; Benson, Betsey A. – Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 1998
A study investigated whether 73 adults with mental retardation had difficulty understanding emotion-descriptive concepts and whether that difficulty can be attributed to difficulty with abstract concepts. Participants performed better on nonemotion than emotion concepts measures. There were no differences between abstract and nonabstract concepts…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Aggression, Cognitive Ability
Peer reviewedMoffatt, Courtney W.; And Others – Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 1995
This study found that the responses of 40 institutionalized adults with moderate mental retardation to the tasks of discriminating emotions and expressing empathy were poor in contrast to those with mild mental retardation. Of individuals with mild mental retardation, those with no chronic challenging behaviors scored better than those with…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Behavior Problems, Discrimination Learning
