BACKGROUND: This study investigated the relative ease of learning across four tasks suggested by an adaptation of Thomas's hierarchy of learning in children with Down syndrome, autism spectrum disorders and mental age-matched controls. METHODS: Learning trials were carried out to investigate observational learning, instrumental learning, reversal learning and conditional discrimination. RESULTS: The sample with autism spectrum disorders performed worse than the other two groups on the observational learning and conditional discrimination tasks, while the Down syndrome sample performed worse on the instrumental learning task. CONCLUSIONS: These findings are discussed in terms of there implications for reward-based educational intervention programmes.

Comparison of conditioning impairments in children with Down syndrome, autistic spectrum disorders and mental age-matched controls / P. Reed, L. Staytom, S. Stott, R. Truzoli. - In: JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY RESEARCH. - ISSN 0964-2633. - 55:10(2011 Oct), pp. 988-997. [10.1111/j.1365-2788.2011.01454.x]

Comparison of conditioning impairments in children with Down syndrome, autistic spectrum disorders and mental age-matched controls

R. Truzoli
2011

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BACKGROUND: This study investigated the relative ease of learning across four tasks suggested by an adaptation of Thomas's hierarchy of learning in children with Down syndrome, autism spectrum disorders and mental age-matched controls. METHODS: Learning trials were carried out to investigate observational learning, instrumental learning, reversal learning and conditional discrimination. RESULTS: The sample with autism spectrum disorders performed worse than the other two groups on the observational learning and conditional discrimination tasks, while the Down syndrome sample performed worse on the instrumental learning task. CONCLUSIONS: These findings are discussed in terms of there implications for reward-based educational intervention programmes.
Settore M-PSI/08 - Psicologia Clinica
ott-2011
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