Strategies of knowledge acquisition

Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 1995, Pages

  Kuhn, Deanna ^a   Garcia Mila, Merce ^a   Zohar, Anat ^a   Andersen, Christopher ^a  

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DOI: 10.2307/1166059     Document Type: Article

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