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Peer reviewedMeador, Darlene M.; And Others – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1984
In Experiment 1, the illumination of black stimuli on white backgrounds failed to facilitate discrimination learning. In Experiment 2, however, illumination of white stimuli on black backgrounds facilitated discrimination learning. Findings supported the use of changes in illumination as an attention-influencing feature of nonspeech communication…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Moderate Mental Retardation, Severe Mental Retardation, Stimuli
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 reviewedCrawford, Katheryn Alice; Siegel, Paul S. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1982
Eighty-two educable and trainable mentally retarded children (6-18 years old) judged whether a series of visual stimuli matched a standard. With each judgment the investigator verbalized "right" or "wrong" and then provided full feedback of cue similarities and differences that supported each judgment. Trained Ss exhibited total intradimensional…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Mild Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation
Irvin, Larry K. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1976
Evaluated was the use of easy to hard visual discrimination vocational training procedures with 24 institutionalized trainable mentally retarded Ss (16-43 years old). (PT)
Descriptors: Adults, Discrimination Learning, Institutionalized Persons, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedLangone, John; Shade, Jill; Clees, Tom J.; Day, Tonya – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1999
This study evaluated the effectiveness of a multimedia computer-based instructional program with four middle school students with moderate/severe mental retardation in establishing match-to-sample skills and generalizing those skills to the natural setting (a grocery store). In vivo probes found mean and median duration to find target items…
Descriptors: Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Computer Assisted Instruction, Consumer Education, Daily Living Skills
