Preschoolers Use Intentional and Pedagogical Cues to Guide Inductive Inferences and Exploration

Child Development

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1416-1428

  Butler, Lucas P ^a   Markman, Ellen M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); GESTURES; HUMANS; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84862862623     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01775.x     Document Type: Article

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