Cognitive development: Children's knowledge about the mind

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue , 1999, Pages 21-45

  Flavell, John H ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood; Infancy; Metacognition; Social cognition; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANIMAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THINKING; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); INFANT; MALE; MIND-BODY RELATIONS (METAPHYSICS); MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THINKING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032618173     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.50.1.21     Document Type: Article

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