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University Daily Kansan Thursday, May 7, 1964
Psychologist Tells Colloquium Retarded Children Can Learn
Two ideas regarding retarded children were presented yesterday at the psychology colloquium by Dr. Norman D. Ellis, professor of experimental psychology at Peabody College in Nashville, Tenn.
The first idea Prof. Ellis presented was one aspect of his research seemed to demonstrate that retarded children are actually capable of retaining knowledge just as well as people of normal intelligence.
He said this ability to remember was shown when he taught retarded children a task so they could repeat it five times without error. Their performance on a memory test given 30 days later was even a little bet-
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both normal and retarded people learn better when reinforcement was applied one-half second after presentation of stimulus rather than simultaneously.
Prof. Ellis warns he has not yet been able to prove the consistency of the reinforcement discovery, but he hopes to establish this needed proof in the future.
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ter than a performance of people with normal intelligence, Prof. Ellis said.
The second idea was accidentally discovered during his investigations of mentally retarded children. Prof. Ellis said he discovered what may prove to be a general law for reinforcement learning.
He discovered to his amazement
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