Executive functioning and preschoolers' understanding of false beliefs, false photographs, and false signs

Child Development

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1034-1049

  Sabbagh, Mark A ^a   Moses, Louis J ^b   Shiverick, Sean ^c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LOGIC; MALE; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGIC; MALE; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 33746355965     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00917.x     Document Type: Review

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