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Peer reviewedWelch-Ross, Melissa K. – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Forty 3.5- to 4.5-year-olds discussed past events with their mothers and completed tasks indexing their ability to reason about conflicting mental representations and understanding of knowledge. Found that theory-of-mind scores were related to memory conversation participation, independent of age and linguistic skill, and to the frequency of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Individual Development
