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Peer reviewedDube, William V.; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1993
An assessment of identity matching to sample with 2-dimensional forms was conducted with 44 subjects with moderate and severe intellectual disabilities. Overall, generalized identity matching was demonstrated in 34 of 44 subjects, including 7 of 16 individuals with mental age scores below 3.0 years. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Generalization, Moderate Mental Retardation, Severe Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedSmeets, Paul M.; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1990
Two time-delay conditions for teaching complex visual discriminations to 14 normal preschoolers, 12 with mild mental retardation, and 11 with moderate mental retardation were compared. Results indicated that for all populations and stimuli, time delay of multiple dynamic distinctive-feature prompts produced learning, while time delay of the single…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cues, Discrimination Learning, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedStrand, Steve C. – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1991
This study found that teachers' ratings of their 8 severely mentally handicapped pupils' (ages 9-18) classroom behavior were correlated with children's performance on a discrimination learning task. The factors of attention/distractibility and responsivity to consequences correlated significantly with number of errors and number of trials to…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Behavior Problems, Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Tempo
