Failing to report details of an event: A review of the directed forgetting procedure and applications to reports of childhood sexual abuse

Memory

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 115-128

  Gordon, Heidi M ^a   Connolly, Deborah A ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Childhood sexual abuse; Children and the law; Directed forgetting

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LONG TERM MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MENTAL RECALL; PERCEPTUAL DEFENSE; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRESSION; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77649128521     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210903130772     Document Type: Article

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