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Ferretti, Ralph P.; Butterfield, Earl C. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1989
The study compared the problem solving strategies of intellectually gifted (N=133), average (N=102) and mentally retarded (N=51) children on two-dimensional integration problems. Gifted children tended to integrate dimensional information by addition, average children used lexicographic strategies, and retarded children relied on a single…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Intelligence Differences
