International Review of Research in Mental Retardation (eBook)

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1991 | 1. Auflage
218 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-085794-7 (ISBN)

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This volume addresses three important areas of current research in mental retardation: behavioral toxicology research and its implications for the cause and prevention of some types of mental retardation, cognitive processes in mentally retarded individuals and the significance of this issue for the further development of remediation techniques, and social adaptation and family functioning and the importance of these topics for the study of mental retardation.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
International Review of Research in Mental Retardation, Volume 16 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 6
Contributors 10
Preface 12
Chapter 1. Methodological Issues in Specifying Neurotoxic Risk Factors for Developmental Delay: Lead and Cadmium as Prototypes 14
I. Introduction 14
II. Brief Summary of Risk Literature in Child Development 19
III. Risk Models 20
IV. Assessing Effects of Combinations of Risk Factors with Statistical Models 24
V. Specifying Risk Factors for Developmental Disabilities Due to Lead and Cadmium 27
VI. Recurring Issues in Neurotoxicology of Lead and Cadmium 35
VII. Summary 41
References 41
Chapter 2. The Role of Methylmercury Toxicity in Mental Retardation 46
I. Introduction 46
II. Mercury 47
III. Mercury Exposure 48
IV. Measurement of Mercury in Human 49
V. Clinical Syndromes of Mercury Poisoning 50
VI. Outbreks of Human Exposure 52
VII. Relationship of Clinical Disorders to Exposure Levels 56
VIII. Fetal Sensitivity 57
IX. Studies of Metal Methylmercury Exposure at Low Levels 58
X. Summary 60
References 61
Chapter 3. Attentional Resource Allocation and Mental Retardation 64
I. Introduction 64
II. Development of the Attentional Resource Hypothesis 67
III. Attentional Resource Allocation 73
IV. Preliminary Research 78
V. Discussion and Conclusions 94
References 97
Chapter 4. Individual Differences in Cognitive and Social Problem-Solving Skills as a Function of Intelligence 102
I. Introduction 102
II. Models of Cognitive Problem Solving 105
III. Individual Differences in Cognitive Problem Solving 108
IV. Models of Social Problem Solving 117
V. Individual Differences in Social Problem Solving 118
VI. Methods of Assessment 122
VII. Methods of Fostering Cognitive and Social Problem Solving 125
VIII. Limitations of Current Research 128
IX. Future Directions and Conclusions 129
References 131
Chapter 5. Social Intelligence, Social Competence, and Interpersonal Competence 138
I. Introduction 138
II. Investigations of Socially Based Competencie 139
III. Greenspan’s Models 155
IV. Investigations of Social and Adaptive Intelligence in Mentally Retarded Adolescents 160
References 165
Chapter 6. Conceptual Relationships between Family Research and Mental Retardation 174
I. Introduction 174
II. Issues Surrounding the Conceptualization of Mental Retardation 177
III. Classification within Mental Retardation 190
IV. Personality, Motivation, and Other Individual Differences 198
V. Conclusions and Implications 203
References 207
Index 216
Contents of Previous Volumes 226

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.1.1991
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): Norman W. Bray
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geophysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 0-08-085794-9 / 0080857949
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-085794-7 / 9780080857947