International review of research in mental retardation. Volume 6 / edited by Norman R. Ellis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ellis, Norman R.

Series:

International review of research in mental retardation ; 6.

International review of research in mental retardation ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectual disability.

Developmental disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Academic Press, 1973.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

INT'L REV OF RESRCH IN MENTL RETARDTN V6

Contents:

Front Cover; International Review of Research in Mental Retardation, Volume 6; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Contents of Previous Volumes; Chapter 1. Cultural Deprivation and Cognitive Competence; I. Introduction; II. Cultural Deprivation: Euphemism and Essence; Ill. A Cross-Cultural Look at Cultural Deprivation; IV. IQ, SES, and Cognitive Competence; V. Ethnicity, Personality, and Cognitive Competence: Results of Three Parallel Studies; VI. Structure of Cognitive Abilities; VII. Summary; References; Chapter 2. Stereotyped Acts; I. Introduction

II. Theoretical FormulationsIll. Research Strategies; IV. Correlational Studies; V. Intervention Studies; VI. Conclusions; References; Chapter 3. Research on the Vocational Habilitation of the Retarded: The Present, The Future; I. Introduction; II. The Present; III. The Future; IV. Concluding Comments; References; Chapter 4. Consolidating Facts into the Schematized Learning and Memory System of Educable Retardates; I. Psychology's Frame of Reference; II. Psychology's Forgotten Past; III. The Idealized Memory System; IV. Discovering Redundancy; V. Summary; References

Chapter 5. An Attention-Retention Theory of Retardate Discrimination LearningI. Introduction; II. A Concise Quantitative Statement of the Theory; III. Outline of the Data Domain of the Theory; IV. What is Learned; V. One or Two Learning Processes; VI. Strengths or Relative Strengths; VII. Gradual vs. All-or-Nothing Learning; VIII. Mechanism of Learning; IX. Generalization; X. Chaining; XI. Modifiability of the Links; XII. Breadth of Attention; XIII. Feedback; XIV. Retention; XV. Response Generation; XVI. Control Processes and Structural Features; References

Chapter 6. Studying the Relationship of Task Performance to the Variables of Chronological Age, Mental Age, and IQI. Introduction; II. A Developmental Population for Research on CA, MA, and IQ; III. Two-Dimensional Maps of the CA, MA, IQ Domain; IV. Critique of Harter's Interpretation of Her Data; V. Intercorrelations and the Factor Space; VI. Response Surfaces and the Ruled Surface Model; VII. Procedure for Deriving and Plotting Iso-Performance Contours; VIII. Analysis of Harter's Data Using Iso-Performance Contours; IX. Appraisal of the Graphic Approach in the Analysis of Response Surfaces

X. Some Comments on the Research LiteratureXI. The Design of Experiments on CA. MA. and IQ; XII. The Problem of Correlated Variables in Other Areas of Research; XIII. Summary and Conclusions; Appendix; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-74894-3

9786611748944

0-08-085784-1

OCLC:

476219145