Emergent Simple Discriminations and Conditional Relations in Children, Intellectually Impaired Adults, and Normal Adults

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 201-219

  Smeets, Paul M ^a   Barnes, Dermot ^b   Schenk, Jacqueline J ^a   Darcheville, Jean Claude ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 0030207537     PISSN: 02724995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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