A comparison of between- and within-subjects imitation designs

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 564-573

  Kressley, Regina A ^a   Knopf, Monika ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Declarative memory; Deferred imitation; Infant cognition; Memory development

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; GENDER BIAS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPPA STATISTICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION STUDY; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INFANT; MALE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RESEARCH DESIGN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33751175432     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2006.07.012     Document Type: Article

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