The effect of an intervening interview on children's ability to remember one occurrence of a repeated event

Legal and Criminological Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 247-262

  Powell, Martine B ^a,b   Thomson, Donald M ^a,c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; INTERVIEW; LIFE EVENT; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; WITNESS;

EID: 0030930061     PISSN: 13553259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8333.1997.tb00346.x     Document Type: Article

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