The effects of source and type of feedback on child witnesses' metamemory accuracy

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 331-344

  Allwood, Carl Martin ^a   Jonsson, Anna Carin ^a   Granhag, Pär Anders ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CALIBRATION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RECALL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL ASPECT; TEACHER; VIDEOTAPE; WITNESS;

EID: 17144388249     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1071     Document Type: Article

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