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Learning Disabled Children's Understanding of Social Interactions of Peers

Elizabeth Weiss is staff psychologist at the Mount Vernon Community Service Center. She received her PhD in educational psychology from New York University, Address 3135 Johnson Avenue. Riverdale, NY 10463.

Judgments of children who have manifested social problems—physically aggressive and learning disabled boys—were compared with judgements of children whose behavior was more appropriate. Inner—city children viewed videotapes of similar children engaging in friendly, fighting or horseplay interactions. Approximately half the children in each group heard verbal descriptions of the same events rather than observing them on videotape. No differences were found between aggressive boys and non-aggressive boys, suggesting that aggressive perceivers do not necessarily "project" their own characteristics onto others. However, learning disabled boys both aggressive and non-aggressive, found all scenes more unfriendly. Differences in responses to videotapes and to verbal descriptions alone suggest that conclusions about social perceptions obtained from one mode of stimulus presentation may not generalize to other modes or to life situations.

Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 17, No. 10, 612-615 (1984)
DOI: 10.1177/002221948401701008


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