Test-retest reliability for false-belief tasks

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 313-319

  Mayes, Linda C ^a   Klin, Ami ^a   Tercyak Jr , Kenneth P ^a   Cicchetti, Domenic V ^a   Cohen, Donald J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

False belief; Test retest; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RELIABILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VIDEOTAPE;

CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0029937989     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1996.tb01408.x     Document Type: Article

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