Korean preschoolers' advanced inhibitory control and its relation to other executive skills and mental state understanding

Child Development

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 80-99

  Oh, Seungmi ^a,b   Lewis, Charlie ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATTENTION; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONFLICT; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); KOREA; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIALIZATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); KOREA; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PARENTING; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIALIZATION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 38849085148     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01112.x     Document Type: Article

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