Infant capacities related to building internal working models of attachment figures: A theoretical and empirical review

Developmental Review

Volumn 37, Issue , 2015, Pages 109-141

  Sherman, Laura J ^a   Rice, Katherine ^a   Cassidy, Jude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment; Cognition; Infancy; Internal working model; Memory; Representations; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939571010     PISSN: 02732297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dr.2015.06.001     Document Type: Review

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