Preschoolers trust particular informants when learning new names and new morphological forms

British Journal of Developmental Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 46-63

  Corriveau, Kathleen H ^a   Pickard, Katherine ^a   Harris, Paul L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECEPTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TRUST;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DECEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEMANTICS; TRUST; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 79751517054     PISSN: 0261510X     EISSN: 2044835X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/2044-835X.002009     Document Type: Article

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