Children's strategic compensation for size underconstancy: Dependence on distance and relation to reasoning ability

Visual Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 296-319

  Merriman, William E ^a   Moore, Zachariah ^a   Granrud, Carl E ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Naive theory of vision; Size judgement; Size perception; Strategy acquisition; Visual metacognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBALIZATION; VISION;

EID: 77449131689     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280902738913     Document Type: Article

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