2.5-year-olds succeed at a verbal anticipatory-looking false-belief task

British Journal of Developmental Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 14-29

  He, Zijing ^a   Bolz, Matthias ^b   Baillargeon, Renée ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECEPTION; EGO; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY OF MIND; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURE; DECEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; REALITY TESTING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; THEORY OF MIND; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84858605834     PISSN: 0261510X     EISSN: 2044835X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-835X.2011.02070.x     Document Type: Article

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