The assessment of children's understanding of inclusion relations: Transitivity, asymmetry and quantification

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 551-570

  Deneault, Joane ^a   Ricard, Marcelle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING THEORY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; METHODOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33750446701     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327647jcd0704_6     Document Type: Article

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