Video Reminders in a Representational Change Task: Memory for Cues but Not Beliefs or Statements

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 107-129

  Zelazo, Philip David ^a   Boseovski, Janet J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children's memory; Executive function; External representations; Interference; Realist bias; Theory of mind; Video

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZATION; VIDEORECORDING;

CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0035257058     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.2000.2562     Document Type: Article

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