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Download full textKaufman, Herbert; Smith, Jerome – 1972
Eight experiments using as Ss either retarded children, normal children, or normal adults studied the relations of retardation and normal development to the perceptual process of identification. Two experiments were reported on the identification of stimuli varying in either one, two, or three dimensions. Retardates did not perform as well as…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Identification, Memory
Evans, Ross A.; Beedle, Randall K. – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1970
A version of the paper was presented at the American Association on Mental Deficiency (Boston, May, 1968). (JM)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Perception
Hill, Suzanne D.; Barnett, Lester W., Jr. – J Spec Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Processes, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedGuralnick, Michael J. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1976
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Feedback
Davis, J. Kent – 1967
Two experiments studied the influence of an individual's cognitive style on concept identification. Subjects were high school males, classified into levels of cognitive style according to their performance on the Hidden Figures Test. For the first experiment, three non-overlapping groups of 30 each were required to classify figural patterns, which…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, High School Students
Jensen, Kai – 1968
Simple and complex learning and problem solving situations were employed with mentally retarded children and adults. In the Rotation-Discrimination Complex and the Size-Discrimination Simple experiments, upper and lower test achievement subgroups were subjected to two basic types of visual discrimination at different levels of task complexity.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept)
Sapir, Selma G. – 1967
Fifty-four kindergarten children were screened with the Sapir Developmental Scale to highlight deficiencies in bodily schema, perceptual motor skills, and language development, and were matched in groups of three by score, chronological age, and sex with one of the three acting as control. Three first grade classes were organized as follows: one…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Auditory Perception, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research
Benyon, Sheila Doran – 1968
Seven children with basic perceptual motor problems (learning disorders) in varying severity were selected for a 6-week intensive program. All were from 6 to 8 years old and had mental ages 2 years below their chronological age. Structured and integrated areas of instruction were speech and language, perceptual-motor, gross motor, and aquatics.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Coordination, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research
ELLIS, NORMAN R. – 1963
THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF 21 AUTHORS IN THIS VOLUME ARE DEVOTED TO ASSESSING THE STATUS OF RESEARCH AND THEORY IN MENTAL DEFICIENCY, FOCUSING ATTENTION ON THE BEHAVIOR OF THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED. PART ONE IS CONCERNED WITH RESEARCH FINDINGS AND THEORIES TO EXPLAIN MENTAL DEFICIENCY. COMPREHENSIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES REPRESENTED INCLUDE FIELD…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Behavior, Behavior Theories, Behavioral Science Research
