1st Edition

The Experimental Psychology of Mental Retardation

By Donald K. Routh Copyright 1973
366 Pages
by Routledge

368 Pages
by Routledge

363 Pages
by Routledge

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 which emerged in the late... Read more
1: The Experimental Study of the Retarded Child; 2: The Experimental Contribution to Learning Problems in the Retarded; 3: Classical Conditioning and Intellectual Deficit; 4: One Programmatic Approach to Retardation; 5: The Channel Capacity of Educable Mental Retardates; 6: Cognition and Language in Mental Retardation: Distinctions and Implications; 7: The Retarded Child as a Whole Person; 8: Experimental Approaches to the Clinical Psychology of Mental Retardation

Biography

Donald K. Routh