Maintenance and generalization of a semantic rehearsal strategy in educable mentally retarded children |
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Authors: | Randall W Engle Richard J Nagle Malcolm Dick |
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Institution: | University of South Carolina USA |
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Abstract: | Two groups of 11- to 12-year-old educable mentally retarded children, equated on the basis of a free recall pretest, were given a series of lists for free recall. Approximately half the subjects were trained in the use of a strategy designed to induce deeper level semantic encoding and the discovery of categorical relationships and half constituted a “no-training” control group with standard free recall instructions. The subjects received either related or unrelated lists during the training phase and related or unrelated lists during two post-tests, immediately following and 1 week after training. There was evidence not only that the semantic strategy was maintained over the 1-week delay, but that it also generalized to word lists unlike those used during training. The degree of generalization was greater for those subjects receiving related lists during training. |
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Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be sent to Randall W Engle Psychology Department University of South Carolina Columbia SC 29208 |
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