The Wildcard: A simple technique for improving children's target-absent lineup performance

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 358-368

  Zajac, Rachel ^a   Karageorge, Aspasia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; WITNESS;

EID: 66149152252     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1511     Document Type: Article

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