Training Transfer Between Card Sorting and False Belief Understanding: Helping Children Apply Conflicting Descriptions

Child Development

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1823-1839

  Kloo, Daniela ^a   Perner, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COLOR VISION; CONFLICT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING;

AWARENESS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; REVERSAL LEARNING; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0348217741     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1467-8624.2003.00640.x     Document Type: Article

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