Journal of Child Language http://journals.cambridge.org/JCL Additional services for Journal of Child Language: Email alerts: Click here Subscriptions: Click here Commercial reprints: Click here Terms of use : Click here Gender and age effects interact in preschoolers' help-seeking: evidence for differential responses to changes in task difculty R. BRUCE THOMPSON, THOMAS COTHRAN and DANIEL MCCALL Journal of Child Language / Volume 39 / Issue 05 / November 2012, pp 1107 - 1120 DOI: 10.1017/S030500091100047X, Published online: 05 January 2012 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S030500091100047X How to cite this article: R. BRUCE THOMPSON, THOMAS COTHRAN and DANIEL MCCALL (2012). Gender and age effects interact in preschoolers' help-seeking: evidence for differential responses to changes in task difculty. Journal of Child Language, 39, pp 1107-1120 doi:10.1017/S030500091100047X Request Permissions : Click here Downloaded from http://journals.cambridge.org/JCL, IP address: 130.88.90.140 on 30 Mar 2015