Developmentally invariant dissociations in children's true and false memories: Not all relatedness is created equal

Child Development

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1112-1123

  Howe, Mark L ^a,b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECALL; REVIEW; SEMANTICS;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REPRESSION; REPRESSION, PSYCHOLOGY; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33746372951     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00922.x     Document Type: Review

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