Long-term effectiveness of imagery instructions with retarded persons.
The effects of imagery instructions on paired-associate learning efficiency and on the retention of 16 picture pairs were investigated using two groups of EMR individuals with approximate mental ages of 8 and 11 years, respectively. While facilitated list mastery was obtained under imagery instructions, no facilitation was found for 1-week retention performance. However, in learning a new list immediately following the retention task, those individuals who had received imagery instructions during original learning continued to exhibit facilitated learning. These results extend previous work.
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D005793:Generalization, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008568:Memory; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning; D012057:Reinforcement, Verbal; D012153:Retention, Psychology; D013997:Time Factors; D014163:Transfer, Psychology; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014888:Wechsler Scales