Charlie Brown versus Snow White: The effects of descriptiveness on young and older adults' retrieval of proper names

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Fogler, Kethera A ^a   James, Lori E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MEMORY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WORD RECOGNITION; AGE; MIDDLE AGED; NOMENCLATURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PUBLIC FIGURE; RECALL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FAMOUS PERSONS; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NAMES;

EID: 34548608533     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/62.4.P201     Document Type: Article

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