Emotion situation knowledge and autobiographical memory in Chinese, immigrant Chinese, and European American 3-years-olds

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 95-118

  Wang, Qing ^a   Hutt, Rachel ^a   Kulkofsky, Sarah ^a   McDermott, Melissa ^a   Wei, Ruohong ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HOME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMIGRANT; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LITERATURE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33644935222     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327647jcd0701_5     Document Type: Article

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