When labels hurt but novelty helps: Children's perseveration and flexibility in a card-sorting task

Child Development

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1589-1607

  Yerys, Benjamin E ^a   Munakata, Yuko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33750929174     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00961.x     Document Type: Article

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