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Peer reviewedBorkowski, John G.; Wanschura, Patricia B. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1975
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Exceptional Child Research, Learning
Download full textTaylor, Arthur M. – 1970
The reports of eight studies testing the effects of elaboration on the learning of children are compiled in this document. Mental elaboration is "thinking while learning" which occurs as the learner actively adds context to the material he is asked to process. Supplied elaboration, included in these studies, occurs when the learner is provided…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Elementary School Students, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedBurger, 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
Peer reviewedBuckhalt, Joseph A.; And Others – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1976
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Expressive Language
Greeson, Larry E.; Jens, Ken G. – 1976
A study-recall paired-associates (PA) learning task was administered to 40 trainable mentally retarded children (6-14 years old) under one of four instructional modeling conditions: imagery, verbal mediation, imagery and verbal mediation, or control. On half of the PA learning study trials, the children were provided with modeled mediating…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research
Associative Learning Strategies Employed by Deaf, Blind, Retarded and Normal Children. Final Report.
Martin, Clessen J. – 1967
Eight experiments studied the following aspects of associative strategies in learning: classification; verbalization at three developmental levels; verbalization by normal and educable children; facilitation of associative learning among educable retardates; effectiveness of familiarization and differentiation training on the successful employment…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Blindness, Cognitive Processes, Exceptional Child Research
