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Peer reviewedBarnes, T. R.; Zeaman, D. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1983
Results of a study with 10 moderately retarded adolescents on the salience of transverse compound stimuli (combinations of positive and negative cues) were interpreted as an instance of developmental changes in unlearned stimulus salience hierarchies. The low saliency of transverse compounds was suggested to be related to reading difficulties.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cues, Discrimination Learning, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedWatkins, Kathy M.; Konarski, Edward A., Jr. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1987
The effect of level of stereotypy on learning a discrimination was examined using a factorial design with high and low levels of stereotypy and three levels of IQ with 30 institutionalized retarded persons. Results indicated the effects of stereotypy were different across the IQ levels. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Discrimination Learning, Institutionalized Persons, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedSperber, Richard D. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1976
Descriptors: Adolescents, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Processes
McManis, Donald L. – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1969
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Processes, Mental Retardation
Schoen, Sharon Faith – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1986
The article reviews and analyzes existing assistance procedures with moderately to severely developmentally disabled students. Procedures considered include those performed prior to responding and those involved with fading assistance. Implications for selecting assistance procedures are examined. (CL)
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedBrice-Gray, Kathleen J.; Fink, William T. – Mental Retardation, 1979
Ten moderately and severely handicapped preschool children served as Ss in a pre-post-test design to evaluate the effects of cumulative and successive pairs programing strategies. (Author)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Processes, Mental Retardation
Irvin, Larry K. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1976
Evaluated was the use of easy to hard visual discrimination vocational training procedures with 24 institutionalized trainable mentally retarded Ss (16-43 years old). (PT)
Descriptors: Adults, Discrimination Learning, Institutionalized Persons, Learning Processes
Download full textStukuls, Henry I. – 1974
Eighteen retarded Ss (mean IQ 50 and mean age 14 years) and 18 normal Ss (mean IQ 100 and mean age 7 years) participated in a study to isolate variables that differentially control discrimination learning and retention processes, and to evaluate contrasting theories on discrimination learning and menory processes of retarded and normal children.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research
