Title
Attention, Memory, And Cognition
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1-1-1991
Publication Title
Handbook Of Mental Retardation (2nd Ed.).
Department
Psychology
Abstract
surveys the extant literature on cognitive development in mentally retarded people and draws on the more recent literature and theoretical advances to identify structures, processes, and environmental contingencies that influence delays in learning, remembering, and thinking the framework used to direct the review is illustrated in a multistage model / the model] is a composite sketch of . . . theories of memory and information processing / the model can also be seen as incorporating both the structural and developmental positions attentional and perceptual process / information processing and attention components of memory / very short-term memory / primary memory / rehearsal strategies and secondary memory / tertiary memory / retrieval processes a model of metacognition: implications for mental retardation / ability-related differences in specific strategy knowledge / general knowledge and motivation processes.
pp.
505-528
Provider Link
Citation
Hale, Catherine, and John G. Borkowski. Attention, memory, and cognition. Elmsford, NY, US: Pergamon Press, 1991.