Information producing responses in normal and retarded children. |
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Authors: | M E Cohen T Heller |
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Affiliation: | Illinois Institute for Developmental Disabilities USA;Roosevelt University USA |
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Abstract: | Normal and retarded children were given trials on several discriminations which varied in difficulty. On standard discrimination trials the retarded subjects did not differ from the MA control subjects in the number of errors made but both groups made more errors than the CA control group. On other trials if subjects were not sure which stimulus was correct they were allowed to press an information key which made the discrimination easier. The retarded subjects made significantly more informational key responses than either of the control groups. These results confirmed the findings of prior investigations dealing with outerdirectedness in an experimental situation which did not allow distractibility to be a significant factor. |
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Keywords: | Now at the University of Wisconsin. Requests for reprints should be sent to M. E. Cohen Waisman Center 2605 Marsh Lane University of Wisconsin Madison Wisconsin 53706. |
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