Improving children's recall of an occurrence of a repeated event: Is it a matter of helping them to generate options?

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 365-384

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

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Children's eyewitness memory; Interviewing

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVIEW; LEGAL ASPECT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERFORMANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECALL; SCHOOL CHILD; WITNESS;

AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; REPRESSION;

EID: 0041707978     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024032932556     Document Type: Article

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