How to detect cognitive strategies: Commentary on 'Differentiation and integration: Guiding principles for analyzing cognitive change'

Developmental Science

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 449-453

  Van Der Maas, Han L J ^a   Straatemeier, Marthe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; MALE; NOTE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROBLEM SOLVING; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 45349105281     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00690.x     Document Type: Note

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