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Effects of External Emphasis and Redundancy Level on the Paired-Associate Learning of Retarded Adolescents and Nonretarded Children
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Spitz, Herman H.; Borys, Suzanne V. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1974
Descriptors: Adolescents, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Processes, Mental Retardation
Development and Transfer of Mediational Strategies by Retarded Children in Paired-Associate Learning
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Borkowski, John G.; Wanschura, Patricia Beall – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1974
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Learning, Learning Processes, Mental Retardation
Free-Learning Among Intellectually Average Children and Mentally Retarded Individuals: A Study of Response Integration
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Berry, Franklin M.; And Others – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1971
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Learning, Learning Processes
Types of Mixed Lists and Paired-Associate Learning
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Gallagher, Joseph W.; And Others – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1973
The study examined the performance of 72 intellectually average children in primary grades and 72 educable mentally retarded adolescents (mean mental age 8 years) on target subsets of work pairs when employed in mixed lists. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Processes, Mental Retardation
Clustering in Nonretarded and Retarded Subjects: Some Basic Determinants
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Palmer, Michael – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1974
Thirty institutionalized mildly retarded adolescent Ss and 30 matched MA elementary school nonretarded Ss were presented 18 items for five free-recall trials in a study of basic determinants of clustering behavior (the recall of sequences of related items following their random presentation). (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Classification, Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons
Acquisition and Retention of a Mediational Strategy for PA Learning in EMR Children
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Burger, Agnes Lin; Blackman, Leonard S. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1976
The ability of 45 educable mentally retarded children (mean CA-11 years) to acquire and retain a mediational strategy for paired associate learning was demonstrated by a training procedure which consisted of the sequencing of consecutive lists under varying degrees of mediational facilitation. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Processes