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Peer reviewedLindsay, D. Stephen; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1991
In three experiments, four and six year olds and adults were examined to determine whether children were more likely than adults to confuse memories from different sources when the sources were highly similar. Findings indicated that children may be especially vulnerable to the effects of source similarity. (SH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Developmental Stages, Imagination, Memory
