Use it or lose it: Examining preschoolers' difficulty in maintaining and executing a goal: REPORT

Developmental Science

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 559-564

  Marcovitch, Stuart ^a   Boseovski, Janet J ^a,b   Knapp, Robin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

AGE FACTORS; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 34547662412     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00611.x     Document Type: Article

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