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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
Peer reviewedIsraely, Yael – Journal of Moral Education, 1985
The literature on the moral judgment and moral development of mentally retarded individuals is reviewed. The relative contribution of mental age, chronological age, cognitive functioning, social experience, and environmental factors to the moral characteristics of this population is discussed. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Chronological Age, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages
