Abstract
There is scant research on cognitive impairment in adults with learning disabilities (LD), even though at least some children with LD remain affected throughout adulthood. The present study was designed to examine several memory processes in adults with LD, including (a) recall with and without cueing, (b) item recognition, (c) proactive inhibition, and (d) semantically organized material. Twenty-one adults with learning disabilities (17 males and 4 females) between 18 and 33 years of age were compared with age matched controls (N = 88). There were two noteworthy findings: First, the adults with LD consistently overestimated their ability to remember lists of words; second, adults with LD were especially impaired in the test requiring termination of an exhaustive and thorough search for relevant material. The data suggest that level of expectation and organizational (structural) strategies are areas worthy of further investigation.
Highlights
Supposition of the item recognition test (Sternberg, 1969) is that selection of a response requires the use of information that is in memory, and that the ulation at the University of California, Irvine
The software was kindly provided by Neurocomp, Newport Beach, California
The adults with LD increased their recall by 1.5 words per subtest whereas the control subjects increased their recall by only .74 words
Summary
The underlying aWAIS = Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (Wechsler, 1955); WRAT = Wide Range Achievement Test (Jastak & Jastak, 1978). Supposition of the item recognition test (Sternberg, 1969) is that selection of a response requires the use of information that is in memory, and that the ulation at the University of California, Irvine. An Atari 800XL microcomputer equipped with an Atari 1050 disc drive and a Zenith Data Systems monitor model ZVM-122 was used to administer the tests. The subjects responded on an Atari touch tablet (Model CX 77). The software was kindly provided by Neurocomp, Newport Beach, California
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