"They danced around in my head and I learned them": Children's developing conceptions of learning

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 345-369

  Sobel, David M ^a   Li, Jin ^a   Corriveau, Kathleen H ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE BASE; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 34848861042     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15248370701446806     Document Type: Article

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