"so big": The development of body self-awareness in toddlers

Child Development

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1426-1440

  Brownell, Celia A ^a,c   Zerwas, Stephanie ^a   Ramani, Geetha B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BODY IMAGE; BODY SIZE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; KINESTHESIA; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROPRIOCEPTION;

AGE FACTORS; AWARENESS; BODY IMAGE; BODY SIZE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; KINESTHESIS; MALE; PROPRIOCEPTION;

EID: 34648816887     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01075.x     Document Type: Article

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