EDUCATION Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Intellectual Disability, Task Analysis, Metacognition
16 Nov 2021
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General characteristics of mental retardation necessary for information in memory. These children have difficulty in realizing conditions or actions that aid in learning and memory. They can"t shift their attention to a new material. They can be helped by learning task analysis, in which the learning task is broken down into different components and those components are mastered sequentially. General cognition---- slowness in learning related to the delayed rate of development. -- they score significantly below average on intelligence tests. --- they have impaired capacities to learn, do not know how to learn or not efficient or effective in the learning processes including attention, memory, linguistic and generalization skills. Attention----- they have difficulty attending to a learning task for a required length of time. Memory ---- they have problems in both long-and short-term memory and the rehearsal processes. Language they experience delayed language development and often exhibit less fluent and less articulate speech than their peers.
