'Undesirable' and 'Desirable' shifts in children's responses to repeated questions: Age differences in the effect of providing a rationale for repetition

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1161-1180

  Howie, Pauline ^a   Sheenan, Melanie ^a   Mojarrad, Tayebeh ^a   Wrzesinska, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL ASPECT; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 11844283983     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1049     Document Type: Article

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