Improving comprehensoin of jury instructions with audio-visual presentation

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 765-776

  Brewer, Neil ^a   Harvey, Sophie ^a   Semmler, Carolyn ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COLLEGE STUDENT; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURT; DECISION MAKING; EXPERT SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RANDOMIZATION; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TAPE RECORDER; TEACHING;

EID: 7744238002     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1036     Document Type: Article

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