Specificity and variability of practice with young children

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 83-88

  Graydon, Jan ^a   Griffin, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; ORIENTATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0030202829     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1996.83.1.83     Document Type: Article

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