Test sample selection by preschool children: Honoring diversity

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1444-1451

  Shipley, Elizabeth F ^a   Shepperson, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SAMPLE; SAMPLING; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING;

EID: 33846244284     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/bf03195909     Document Type: Article

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