Effect of Meaningfulness on Learning Syntactic Units.

The article presents a study examining the influence of meaningfulness and non meaningfulness on the learning of syntactic word pairs with institutionalized mentally retarded and normal children. Through a paired-associate technique, subjects were presented with a list of meaningful and nonmeaningfu...

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Published in:American Journal of Mental Deficiency Vol. 75; no. 1; pp. 27 - 33
Main Author: Gallagher, Joseph W.
Format: Article
Published: American Association on Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Jul1970
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        Learning ability testing
        Children with intellectual disabilities
        Influence
        Semantic differential scale
        Paired associate learning
        Psychology of learning
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          Semantic differential scale
          Paired associate learning
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      ab: The article presents a study examining the influence of meaningfulness and non meaningfulness on the learning of syntactic word pairs with institutionalized mentally retarded and normal children. Through a paired-associate technique, subjects were presented with a list of meaningful and nonmeaningful pairs. Results showed no differences between normal children and retardates for the meaningful pairs. Also, normal children learned the meaningful pairs with lesser errors than retarded children.
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