TY - JOUR
T1 - Cognitive tempo in educable mentally retarded children
AU - Rotatori, Anthony
AU - Cullinan, Douglas
AU - Epstein, Michael H.
AU - Lloyd, John
N1 - Funding Information:
* Received in the Editorial Office on April 12, 1978, and published immediately at Provincetown, Massachusetts. Copyright by The Journal Press. I This research was supported in part by a (COO 7700642) grant irom the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped to the Department of Learning and Development at Northern Illinois University.
PY - 1978/7
Y1 - 1978/7
N2 - The present study investigated the relationship of time and errors on the Matching Familiar Figures test to the mental age of 40 Caucasian male, educable mentally retarded (EMR) children. The children, who ranged in age from six to 18 years, had intelligence test scores of less than 80, were exhibiting problems in adaptive behavior, and were all receiving special education services. An ANOVA revealed that with increasing mental age, elapsed time to first response increased and errors decreased, thus indicating a mental age developmental decrease in impulsivity. For all subjects, time was inversely related to errors. The data suggest that the development of cognitive tempo in EMR children parallels that of nonhandicapped children.
AB - The present study investigated the relationship of time and errors on the Matching Familiar Figures test to the mental age of 40 Caucasian male, educable mentally retarded (EMR) children. The children, who ranged in age from six to 18 years, had intelligence test scores of less than 80, were exhibiting problems in adaptive behavior, and were all receiving special education services. An ANOVA revealed that with increasing mental age, elapsed time to first response increased and errors decreased, thus indicating a mental age developmental decrease in impulsivity. For all subjects, time was inversely related to errors. The data suggest that the development of cognitive tempo in EMR children parallels that of nonhandicapped children.
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U2 - 10.1080/00223980.1978.9921452
DO - 10.1080/00223980.1978.9921452
M3 - Article
C2 - 671374
AN - SCOPUS:84952127316
SN - 0022-3980
VL - 99
SP - 135
EP - 137
JO - Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied
JF - Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied
IS - 2
ER -