Knowing about Guessing and Guessing about Knowing: Preschoolers' Understanding of Indeterminacy

Child Development

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 689-716

  Fay, Anne Louise ^a   Klahr, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOGIC; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGIC; MALE; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0030118570     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1996.tb01760.x     Document Type: Article

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