Young children's ability to recognize advertisements in web page designs

British Journal of Developmental Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 71-83

  Ali, Moondore ^a   Blades, Mark ^a   Oates, Caroline ^a   Blumberg, Fran ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; AGE; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RECOGNITION;

ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; AGE FACTORS; APTITUDE; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOFTWARE;

EID: 67650320547     PISSN: 0261510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/026151008X388378     Document Type: Article

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