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Retardation

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Defining retardation is a complicated task. The problems exhibited by individuals who have been labeled retarded can be extensive, affecting many areas of human functioning. In fact, one problem encountered in surveying behavior modification and therapy in the field of retardation is that retardation is a diagnostic term. As such, it identifies a category of people rather than a specific set of behaviors—the real domain of behavior modification. To align things appropriately, this chapter emphasizes, as have Bijou (1963) and Lindsley (1964), that behaviors, as opposed to individuals, are retarded. This perspective raises an issue about the term mental retardation when used by a behaviorist. Whatever is retarded when viewed from the standpoint of behaviorism is not 44mentality.” Some individuals in the field have advocated replacing the term mental with either developmental or behavioral (cf. Bijou, 1966). Neither of these alternatives appears to have met with widespread acceptance.

The contributions of the authors were equal with authorship order being arbitrarily selected.

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