When do children exhibit a "yes" bias?

Child Development

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 568-580

  Okanda, Mako ^a   Itakura, Shoji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; JAPAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SEMANTICS; STEREOTYPY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; JAPAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEMANTICS; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77954261240     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01416.x     Document Type: Article

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