Prior Knowledge and Exemplar Encoding in Children's Concept Acquisition

Child Development

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1071-1090

  Carmichael, Catherine A ^a   Hayes, Brett K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0035408479     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00335     Document Type: Article

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