Three-year-olds' retrospective revaluation in the blicket detector task: Backward blocking or recovery from overshadowing?

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 27-32

  Beckers, Tom ^a,c   Vandorpe, Stefaan ^b   Debeys, Ine ^a   De Houwer, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blocking; Causal induction; Causal learning; Children; Cue competition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PROBLEM SOLVING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 60749126876     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.56.1.27     Document Type: Article

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