The effects of mother training in emotion-rich, elaborative reminiscing on children's shared recall and emotion knowledge

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 162-187

  Van Bergen, Penny ^a   Salmon, Karen ^a   Dadds, Mark R ^a   Allen, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CHILD; CONVERSATION; EMOTION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; MOTHER; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZATION; RECALL; TRAINING; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 70349157255     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15248370903155825     Document Type: Article

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