What makes relational reasoning smart? Revisiting the perceptual-to- relational shift in the development of generalization

Developmental Science

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 114-122

  Bulloch, Megan J ^a   Opfer, John E ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57849106371     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00738.x     Document Type: Article

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