Source Monitoring and False Memories in Children: Relation to Certainty and Executive Functioning

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 95-111

  Ruffman, Ted ^a   Rustin, Charlotte ^a   Garnham, Wendy ^a   Parkin, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Certainty; Episodic memory; False memories; Familiarity; Hits; Inhibition; Source monitoring; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0035489117     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.2001.2632     Document Type: Article

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