Children's Decisions About How to Negotiate a Virtual Reality Stepping Stones Task.
On a daily basis, children make decisions about how to negotiate their physical environment. Sometimes they engage in physical tasks that involve risk, requiring them to judge the safety of how to negotiate the environment safely. Individual differences in children's age, sex, physical size, and per...
| Published in: | Infant & Child Development Vol. 34; no. 3; pp. 1 - 10 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May/Jun2025
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