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Acquisition And Extinction Of An Avoidance Response By Mildly Retarded Girls, Enrique E. Corte
Acquisition And Extinction Of An Avoidance Response By Mildly Retarded Girls, Enrique E. Corte
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This study investigated the effects of some of the variables operating on the acquisition and extinction of avoidance behavior by mildly retarded adolescent girls. The subjects observed were 20 patients of Parsons State Hospital and Training Center. All the subjects were 15 years of age or older and none of them had reached her twenty-first birthday at the time that the experiment was run. They had adaptive behavior levels of I, II or III.
The subjects were randomly assigned to one of two replications and to one of two experimental conditions (extinction and control). All the subjects were brought into …
Adaptive Behavior And The Proxemic Study Of A Small Group Of Severely Mentally Retarded Children, Roger D. Irwin
Adaptive Behavior And The Proxemic Study Of A Small Group Of Severely Mentally Retarded Children, Roger D. Irwin
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The study sought to develop a method for recording and analyzing some of the patterns of the proxemic behavior of a small group of retarded children. It further sought to determine whether or not there were reliably measurable proxemic group behavior and individual differences in the proxemic behavior of mentally retarded subjects who were not significantly different in behavior patterns measured by an adaptive behavior scale.
The four subjects used in this study were observed in a small rectangular room. A photographic record was made at two minute intervals of the positions of the subjects in the room. From this …