An exploration of toddlers' problems in a search task

Infancy

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 7-34

  Kloos, Heidi ^a   Keen, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITION EFFECT; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 17244375379     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in0701_3     Document Type: Article

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