Child and adult witnesses: The effect of repetition and invitation-probes on free recall and metamemory realism

Metacognition and Learning

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 213-228

  Knutsson, Jens ^a   Allwood, Carl Martin ^b   Johansson, Marcus ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Confidence judgments; Event memory; Eyewitnesses; Free recall; Metacognition; Metamemory; Reiteration

Indexed keywords

EID: 80855131657     PISSN: 15561623     EISSN: 15561631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11409-011-9071-y     Document Type: Article

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