RESEARCH PROGRAM ON RETARDED INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT

该研究计划的重点是行为和生物行为调查 智力迟钝和智力发展的影响。 基本问题 调查的是学习和促进的一般领域。 最终 目标是确定和制定战略和程序， 使弱智者适应正常的生活环境。 相关目标 是为认知的理论和数据做出贡献， 学习和人类发展，特别是 个体差异 该计划分为三个实验室或 研究小组：认知过程，比较发展和实验 分析. 各种各样的研究策略，包括基本的 实验室实验，自然环境中的观察研究，干预 或培训程序、纵向调查和单一主题 实验 调查对象是有危险的正常婴儿， 所有功能水平的人，弱智儿童的同龄人和父母，以及 啮齿动物 调查的具体主题是：信息处理能力 在正常和弱智个体中，语义记忆的组织，模式 婴儿和父母之间的互动，弱智和正常人之间的社会互动， 发展中的儿童，分析歧视性和维持性刺激， 训练、方法的异常和社会反应、转移或泛化 教授积极的社会行为，接受性和生产性语言， 模仿学习，基本刺激控制的建立，产前干预效果 强调行为和身体发育。

This research program focuses upon behavioral and biobehavioral investigations of mental retardation and intellectual development. The basic problem investigated is the general area of learning and its facilitation. The ultimate objective is to identify and develop strategies and procedures for enhancing the adaptation of retarded persons to normal living circumstances. A related goal is to contribute to theories and the body of data concerning cognition, learning, and human development, with particular reference to the role of individual differences. The program is organized into three laboratories or research groups: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Development, and Experimental Analysis. A wide variety of research strategies is followed including basic laboratory experiments, observational studies in natural contexts, intervention or training procedures, longitudinal investigations, and single-subject experiments. Subjects for investigation are at-risk and normal babies, retarded people at all functional levels, peers and parents of retarded children, and rodents. Specific topics investigated are: Information processing capabilities among normal and retarded individuals, organization of semantic memory, patterns of infant-parent interactions, social interactions among retarded and normally developing children, analysis of discriminative and maintaining stimuli for aberrant and social responding, transfer or generalization of training, methods for teaching positive social behaviors, receptive and productive language, imitation learning, establishment of basic stimulus control, effects of prenatal stress on behavioral and physical development.