Young Children's Spontaneous Utterances of Mental Terms and the Accuracy of their Memory Behaviors: A Different Methodological Approach

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 89-105

  Cherney, Isabelle D ^a  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Incidental memory; Metacognition; Metamemory; Methodology; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037217092     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.267     Document Type: Article

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