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Peer reviewedCleland, Charles C.; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1976
Disruptive behaviors were examined in regard to time-of-the-day and day-of-the-week occurance with 67 adult male profoundly mentally retarded special school residents. (Author/IM)
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Institutionalized Persons
Gibbons, Frederick X.; Gibbons, Barbara N. – 1979
The effects of labels, "mentally retarded" and "institutionalized" on the evaluations and causal attributions of nonretarded persons, and on the social distance preferences of EMR persons, were assessed. In addition, each group was asked to predict the likelihood of a labeled (mentally retarded) or a nonlabeled target person achieving success at a…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Expectation
