Studying children's social learning experimentally "in the wild"

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 284-296

  Flynn, Emma ^a   Whiten, Andrew ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMITATION; LEARNING; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77956992518     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/LB.38.3.284     Document Type: Article

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