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A Nonmonotonic Effect of Distribution of Trials in Retardate Learning and Memory

And Others; Sperber, Richard D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1973

Multiple discrimination problems were presented concurrently to retarded children for 1, 2, 4, or 8 massed trials a day for a total of 16 trials per problem. (Editor)

Descriptors: Handicapped Children, Memorization, Memory, Mental Retardation

Instructional Training and the Development of Visual and Verbal Mediation Skills by TMR Children.

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