The Influence of Language and Socioeconomic Status on Children's Understanding of False Belief

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 717-729

  Shatz, Marilyn ^d   Diesendruck, Gil ^a   Martinez Beck, Ivelisse ^b   Akar, Didar ^c  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^c BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0141754046     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.39.4.717     Document Type: Article

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