Evidence of deontic reasoning in 3- and 4-year-old children

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 823-829

  Cummins, Denise Dellarosa ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LOGIC; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIALIZATION;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LOGIC; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIALIZATION;

EID: 0030280784     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03201105     Document Type: Article

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