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| Discrimination Learning | 2 |
| Memory | 2 |
| Mental Retardation | 2 |
| Adolescents | 1 |
| Cognitive Development | 1 |
| Exceptional Child Research | 1 |
| Learning Processes | 1 |
| Mild Mental Retardation | 1 |
| Moderate Mental Retardation | 1 |
| Research | 1 |
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| Sperber, Richard D. | 2 |
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Peer reviewedSperber, Richard D. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1976
Competing explanations of the beneficial effect of spacing in retardate discrimination learning were tested. Results are inconsistent with consolidation and rehearsal theories but support the prediction of the Geber, Greenfield, and House spacing model that forgetting from short-term memory facilities retardate learning. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Discrimination Learning, Memory, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedSperber, Richard D. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1976
Descriptors: Adolescents, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Processes
