Children's block balancing revisited: No evidence for representational redescription

Swiss Journal of Psychology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 183-193

  Krist, Horst ^a   Horz, Holger ^a   Schönfeld, Tina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conceptual development; Intuitive physics; Representational redescription; U shaped growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 29344457579     PISSN: 14210185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/1421-0185.64.3.183     Document Type: Article

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