The Experimental Psychology of Mental Retardation

by Routh,Donald K.

• ISBN13: 9780202308883
• ISBN10: 020230888X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-07-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The renaissance in the field of mental retardation since World War II has been expressed both in research and in renewed practical concern for the plight of the retarded. The 1958 monograph by Masland, Sarason, and Gladwin entitled Mental Subnormality: Biological, Psychological, and Cultural Factors was one spur, if not the only one, to much of the behavioral research that emerged in the late 1950s. Similarly, the Handbook of Mental Deficiency, edited by Norman Ellis and published in 1963, gave theoretical direction to many studies in the years following its appearance.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
The Experimental Study of the Retarded Child	p. 1
The Experimental Contribution to Learning Problems in the Retarded	p. 18
Classical Conditioning and Intellectual Deficit	p. 42
One Programmatic Approach to Retardation	p. 78
The Channel Capacity of Educable Mental Retardates	p. 133
Cognition and Language in Mental Retardation: Distinctions and Implications	p. 157
The Retarded Child as a Whole Person	p. 231
Experimental Approaches to the Clinical Psychology of Mental Retardation	p. 323
Indexes	p. 337
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