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PROBLEM SOLVING AND MENTAL DEFECT
Author(s) -
O'CONNOR N.
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
developmental medicine and child neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.658
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1469-8749
pISSN - 0012-1622
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1959.tb08840.x
Subject(s) - test (biology) , measure (data warehouse) , psychology , function (biology) , cognitive psychology , mental capacity , work (physics) , developmental psychology , computer science , psychiatry , engineering , mechanical engineering , paleontology , database , evolutionary biology , biology
SUMMARY The traditional view is that the low‐grade mental defective is relatively ineducable. It is suggested that part of this ineducability may be traced to conditions of deprivation which are not conducive to the learning of fundamental processes upon which other learning may take place. Experimental work with defectives has shown that while initial performance on tasks is related to intelligence‐test performance, the final performance after training is not. The conclusion drawn from other experiments is that defectives are lacking in the controlling function of language, but even here there are grounds for supposing that a measure of verbal efficiency can be achieved.