Explaining human movements and actions: Children's understanding of the limits of psychological explanation

Cognition

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 291-324

  Schult, Carolyn A ^a   Wellman, Henry M ^a  

^a LYCOMING COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PRESCHOOL CHILD;

AGE FACTORS; BEHAVIOR; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MOVEMENT;

EID: 0031088030     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(96)00786-X     Document Type: Article

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