title: Effects of strategy training on the free-recall performance of mildly and moderately mentally retarded adolescents.
abstract: The effects of extended training with meaningful stimuli on the free-recall performance of mildly and moderately mentally retarded adolescents were examined. Strategy training that involved sorting, categorizing, and labeling objects resulted in a significant increase in free-recall performance on training, maintenance, and near generalization.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003071:Cognition; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D005260:Female; D005793:Generalization, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D014163:Transfer, Psychology