Variations on a technique: Enhancing children's recall using narrative elaboration training

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 377-399

  Brown, Deirdre ^a   Pipe, Margaret Ellen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

EID: 8744312927     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.876     Document Type: Article

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