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Description
Mind Map by moeingthelawn, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by moeingthelawn
about 10 years ago
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Age of witness:
Research
- CECI and BRUCK (1993)
- Children lack appropriate schemas which
may contribute to their inaccurate recall of
events
- CONCLUSIONS
- Younger children are more suggestible
than older children (and so adults)
- Leading questions and misleading interview
techniques may result in children getting the
peripheral AND central details wrong
- Interviews with children should
be audio/video taped from the
first interview onwards
- Evidence about suggestibility come
from lab studies, which lack
ecological validity
- Not ethically possible to
replicate real-life events in lab
due to the distress and fear
- Not ethically possible to
replicate real-life events in lab
due to the distress and fear
- Younger children are more suggestible
than older children (and so adults)
- Children lack appropriate schemas which
may contribute to their inaccurate recall of
events
- THOMSON (1988)
- Children's EWT is likely to suffer more and be
prone to inaccuracies in recall more than adults'
as the storage interval increases
- Children's EWT is likely to suffer more and be
prone to inaccuracies in recall more than adults'
as the storage interval increases
- GOODMAN and REED (1986)
- Children are more likely than
adults to give the answer implied
by a leading question
- Children are more likely than
adults to give the answer implied
by a leading question
- LEICHTMAN and CECI (1995)
- Young children will incorporate misleading
information that is repeatedly given to them
- Young children will incorporate misleading
information that is repeatedly given to them
- KENT and YUILLE (1987)
- Younger children find it difficult to
admit to the questioner that they do not
know the answer
- Want to please the questioner
- Want to please the questioner
- When asked to identify a person they had seen
earlier, younger children were more likely than
older children to pick a person from a photo
display, even if the person's picture was not
included
- Younger children find it difficult to
admit to the questioner that they do not
know the answer
- GROSS and HAYNE (1996)
- When the target person was absent from the
photo line-up, the children performed poorly by
wrongly selecting a picture
- Children interacted with target person only two days earlier
- Children interacted with target person only two days earlier
- When the target person was absent from the
photo line-up, the children performed poorly by
wrongly selecting a picture
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