PSYC2011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Leading Question, Rectal Examination, Forgetting Curve
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When thinking about children"s reports, we usually consider children up to the age 10 in. This is in the capacity of providing evidence, talking to police. If you talk to a 2 and a half year old, it"s a nightmare. In europe, it might be more like 13 or 15. Did i do the action, or did someone else. Whether they imagined they did something or if they actually did it. Do some actions, watched someone else do some actions. Easiest task, children showed similar results to adults. Not as easy as do-watch, but have similar results to adults. Children have a lot of issues with this, much less than adults. Whether they did the action, someone else did the action, or which other person did the action. First allegation was of a child saying "so and so takes my temperature at school" - rectal exam, actually happened at the doctor.
