Efficient coding of eyewitness narratives: A comparison of syntactic unit and word count procedures

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 537-545

  Dickinson, Jason J ^a,b   Poole, Debra A ^a  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECALL; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION THEORY; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0034331739     PISSN: 07433808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03200826     Document Type: Article

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