Extension of the use of measures of cognitive style to moderately-severely retarded trainees in a field setting.
This study investigated the feasibility of using measures of cognitive tempo with 66 institutionalized moderately-severely retarded adolescents and adults in the field settings of three Activity Centres--one rural and two urban. The Matching Familiar Figures Test and the Porteus Maze Tests could, with characteristic modifications, be administered to this type of population, the typical response being slow and error-prone. Either one or both could contribute usefully to the prediction of work performance in the groups concerned, but would have little to offer over and above conventional individual tests of general intelligence.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D007175:Impulsive Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011340:Problem Solving; D011581:Psychological Tests