The facilitatory effect of negative feedback on the emergence of analogical reasoning abilities

British Journal of Developmental Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 583-602

  Ball, Linden J ^a   Hoyle, Alison M ^a   Towse, Andrea S ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LOGIC; MALE; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

APTITUDE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LOGIC; MALE; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS;

EID: 77955756467     PISSN: 0261510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/026151009X461744     Document Type: Article

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