The Sufficient Conditions for Directed Forgetting in Normal and Educable Mentally Retarded Adolescents.

Bray, Norman W.; And Others

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Publication Date: 1978

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The Sufficient Conditions for Directed Forgetting in Normal and Educable Mentally Retarded Adolescents

Bray, Norman W.; And Others

Intelligence, 2, 2, Apr-Jun 78

A directed forgetting task was used in an investigation of the conditions under which normal and educable mentally retarded junior high school students would disregard irrelevant information. Results showed that irrelevant information in memory interfered with the performance of only the retarded group, when given a minimal explanation of the forget cue. (Author/JAC)

Descriptors: Concept Formation, Cues, Intelligence Differences, Junior High Schools, Learning Processes, Memory, Mild Mental Retardation, Retention (Psychology), Students, Task Performance

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