Measuring the development of executive control with the shape school

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 373-381

  Espy, Kimberly Andrews ^a   Bull, Rebecca ^b   Martin, Jessica ^c   Stroup, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive assessment; Executive function; Hierarchical linear modeling; Preschoolers; Shape School

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33845604504     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1040-3590.18.4.373     Document Type: Article

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