Facilitating children's accurate responses: Conversational rules and interview style

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 249-266

  Cordón, Ingrid M ^a   Saetermoe, Carrie L ^b   Goodman, Gail S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; TEACHING;

EID: 17144425727     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1090     Document Type: Article

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