International Review of Research in Mental Retardation ( Volume 16 )

Publication series :Volume 16

Author: Bray   Norman W.  

Publisher: Elsevier Science‎

Publication year: 1991

E-ISBN: 9780080857947

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780123662163

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780123662163

Subject: R749.93 oligophrenia

Language: ENG

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Description

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.

Chapter

Front Cover

pp.:  1 – 4

Copyright Page

pp.:  5 – 6

Contents

pp.:  6 – 10

Contributors

pp.:  10 – 12

Preface

pp.:  12 – 14

Chapter 1. Methodological Issues in Specifying Neurotoxic Risk Factors for Developmental Delay: Lead and Cadmium as Prototypes

pp.:  14 – 46

Chapter 2. The Role of Methylmercury Toxicity in Mental Retardation

pp.:  46 – 64

Chapter 3. Attentional Resource Allocation and Mental Retardation

pp.:  64 – 102

Chapter 4. Individual Differences in Cognitive and Social Problem-Solving Skills as a Function of Intelligence

pp.:  102 – 138

Chapter 5. Social Intelligence, Social Competence, and Interpersonal Competence

pp.:  138 – 174

Chapter 6. Conceptual Relationships between Family Research and Mental Retardation

pp.:  174 – 216

Index

pp.:  216 – 226

Contents of Previous Volumes

pp.:  226 – 232

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