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Peer reviewedLobb, Harold; Childs, Rosemary – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1973
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Students
Peer reviewedKoegel, Robert L.; Rincover, Arnold – Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1976
Assessed was the effectiveness of using prompts (extra "guiding" stimuli) for teaching 16 normal (6 to 9 years old) and 8 autistic children (7 to 12 years old). (Author/SBH)
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research
Download full textMankinen, Richard Lauri – 1971
To investigate whether trained flexibility would generalize to a novel discrimination task and to novel preferred and nonpreferred dimensions, 40 institutionalized retarded children and adults (IQ 50-77) were trained on five two-choice simultaneous-discriminations. Control subjects were trained with a preferred dimension relevant, the others…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Learning, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedGuralnick, Michael J. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1975
Investigated were the effects of three instructional procedures emphasizing distinctive features on the alphabet letter discrimination of 32 moderately retarded children. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedBilsky, Linda H.; And Others – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1975
Two experiments utilized procedures to teach to discriminate between the letters b and d as part of pre-reading training. (Author)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Performance Factors
Peer reviewedLobb, Harold – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1975
Descriptors: Adolescents, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Learning
Peer reviewedLobb, Harold; Stogdill, Daniel – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1975
Descriptors: Children, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
Kaufman, Melvin E.; Gardner, William I. – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1969
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedFrisch, Sue Ann; Schumaker, Jean B. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1974
Three retarded children 3- to 11-years-old were trained, using prompting and reinforcement procedures, to respond correctly to three categories of prepositional requests (next to, under, and on top of). (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Language Instruction
PDF pending restorationHINER, GLADYS; VINEY, WAYNE – 1967
TO STUDY THE EFFECTS OF OVERTRAINING ON REVERSAL AND NONREVERSAL SHIFTS OF CUES, 96 NORMAL (MEAN AGE = 117 MONTHS, MEAN IQ = 109.8) AND 96 RETARDED CHILDREN (MEAN AGE = 119 MONTHS, MEAN IQ = 70.1) WERE TESTED ON A SIMULTANEOUS 2-CHOICE DISCRIMINATION TASK. SUBJECTS WERE TRAINED ON TWO LEVELS (CRITERION AND OVERTRAINING). FOLLOWING TRAINING ON THE…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Grade 4, Learning
Peer reviewedSpradlin, Joseph E.; And Others – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1973
Descriptors: Adolescents, Concept Formation, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning
Peer reviewedField, Dorothy – Journal of Special Education, 1974
Descriptors: Conservation (Concept), Discrimination Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research
Gold, Marc William – 1969
Sixty-four moderately and severely retarded individuals enrolled in four sheltered workshops learned to assemble a 15 piece and a 24 piece bicycle brake. Training procedures utilized information obtained from the basic psychological research on discrimination learning. One-half of the subjects worked with the parts of the training task brake as…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Educational Methods, Exceptional Child Research, Intermode Differences
Dickerson, Donald J. – 1968
Six experiments examined the problem-solving behavior of normal and mentally retarded (MR) children with a two-choice discrimination learning situation: the effects of stimulus similarity upon types of solutions utilized by MR children; the role of redundant cues in the discrimination learning of MR subjects with differing mental ages; the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Children, Cognitive Processes, College Students
PDF pending restorationPerlman, Joseph; Stober, Marvin – 1976
Provided is a selected review of research on the education and training of the severely to profoundly mentally retarded which was reported in academic and professional publications in the years 1969 - 1975. Sections present bibliographic information and annotations for approximately 164 citations in the following eight research categories (sample…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Behavior Change, Communication Skills, Discrimination Learning
