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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 …