Children's sensitivity to the conventionality of sources

Child Development

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 652-668

  Diesendruck, Gil ^a   Carmel, Nurit ^a   Markson, Lori ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; IMITATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 77954290012     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01421.x     Document Type: Article

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