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Gampel, Ezra S. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1990
The paper notes A. Hore and W. Tryon's support of the developmental position that persons with and without mental retardation of similar mental age show similar cognitive patterns, but suggests that mental age is psychometrically invalid and Piagetian tasks are inappropriate to evaluate this position. An information processing approach is…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Developmental Tasks
