A comparison of the effectiveness of two suggestibility paradigms in predicting prescholers' tendency to report a non-experienced event

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1021-1036

  Miles, Katie L ^a   Powell, Martine B ^a   Stokes, Mark A ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL TASK; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RECALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUGGESTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 11844299671     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1074     Document Type: Article

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