Developmental Patterns in the Understanding of Social and Physical Transitivity

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 95-114

  Markovits, Henry ^a   Dumas, Claude ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Children's reasoning; Cognitive development; Social inferences; Transitivity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUDGMENT; MALE; SIZE PERCEPTION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033146665     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.1999.2496     Document Type: Article

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