Children's memory for complex autobiographical events: Does spacing of repeated instances matter?

Memory

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 977-989

  Price, Heather L ^a   Connolly, Deborah A ^a   Gordon, Heidi M ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION;

CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SUGGESTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33750612529     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210601009005     Document Type: Article

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