The Effects of Theories on Children's Acquisition of Family-Resemblance Categories

Child Development

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 333-346

  Krascum, Ruth M ^a   Andrews, Sally ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECALL;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0032042785     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1998.tb06192.x     Document Type: Article

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