Oddity performance in preschool children at risk for mental retardation: Transfer and maintenance

• Published in: Research in developmental disabilities Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 137 - 151
• Main Authors: Soraci, Sal A., Deckner, C.W., Haenlein, Marianne, Baumeister, Alfred A., Murata-Soraci, Kimiyo, Blanton, Richard L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Elsevier Ltd 1987; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Attention; Biological and medical sciences; Child clinical studies; Child, Preschool; Developmental disorders; Female; Generalization, Stimulus; Humans; Intellectual deficiency; Intellectual Disability - psychology; Learning; Male; Medical sciences; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Research Design; Risk; Human; Preschool age; Vigilance; Associative relation; Cognition; Mental retardation; Information transmission; Visual perception; Acquisition process; Familiarity strangeness; Intellectual learning; Visual attention; Stimulus discrimination; Child

The oddity performance of five preschool children at risk for mental retardation was facilitated by increasing the number of nonodd elements in a visual array. A combination intrasubject reversal and multiple baseline across subjects design indicated the internal validity of interventions designed t...