Role of Dimension Preference in the Discrimination Transfer of the Mentally Retarded: Training of Flexibility. IMRID Behavior Science Monograph No. 17.

Autor/in	Mankinen, Richard Lauri
Institution	George Peabody Coll. for Teachers, Nashville, TN. Inst. on Mental Retardation and Intellectual Development.
Titel	Role of Dimension Preference in the Discrimination Transfer of the Mentally Retarded: Training of Flexibility. IMRID Behavior Science Monograph No. 17.
Quelle	(1971), (105 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Discrimination Learning; Exceptional Child Research; Mental Retardation; Mild Mental Retardation; Transfer of Training + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lernen; Lernprozess; Geistige Behinderung; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung
Abstract	To investigate whether trained flexibility would generalize to a novel discrimination task and to novel preferred and nonpreferred dimensions, 40 institutionalized retarded children and adults (IQ 50-77) were trained on five two-choice simultaneous-discriminations. Control subjects were trained with a preferred dimension relevant, the others (flexibility subjects), with a nonpreferred dimension relevant. Combinations were replicated factorially to assess transfer involving the same dimensions as those used in training, or transfer involving novel dimensions. Dimensions used were color, angular-orientation, form, and spatial-configuration. Flexibility acquired in the two-choice simultaneous-discriminations generalized to the matching-to-sample task and was independent of the stimulus dimensions used in training. At the beginning of training, subjects' discrimination learning performance was affected by dimension preferences; at the end of training, performance of flexibility-trained subjects was unaffected by dimension preferences. (Author/KW)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01