A Comparison of Young Children's Understanding of Contradictory Representations in Pretense, Memory, and Belief

Child Development

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 678-688

  Custer, Wendy L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FANTASY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FANTASY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0030115633     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1996.tb01759.x     Document Type: Review

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