This study has shown that novelty-familiarity is a potent dimension in the discriminative performance of retardates, as has previously been found for normal children and adults.
Novelty-Familiarity has also been shown to facilitate attention of discr...
This study has shown that novelty-familiarity is a potent dimension in the discriminative performance of retardates, as has previously been found for normal children and adults.
Novelty-Familiarity has also been shown to facilitate attention of discrimination learning with color form stimuli, probably though a continguity mechanism. The facilitative effects of familization are related to intelligence.
Subjects of lower MA benefit less because of conflicting tendencies to approach novel stimuli.
Some possible implications for retardation; Novelty has been shown to be a highly salient dimension which fedes spontaneously. Much effect has gone into devising special training techniques for the retarded utilising learning "Crutches", redundant relevant cues added and then gradually faded over the course of learning. Novelty is a highly efficient crutch in that if fades by itself.
No special engineering or material arrangements are necessary to use novelty-familiarity as a learning crutch, making possible wide and easy application of the device.
The effects of intelligence on the novelty-familiarity crutch" can be eliminated easily by making novel cues the correct ones. This leads to an interesting prediction, that in a study such as the present one, if novel cues, rather-than familiar cues, were correct, the performance of Low MA subjects could be equal to, or higher than that of High MA subjects.