Children's reasoning about the causal significance of the temporal order of events

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 54-63

  McCormack, Teresa ^a   Hoerl, Christoph ^b,c  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 12444336870     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.41.1.54     Document Type: Article

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