Psychology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Irritant Diaper Dermatitis, Behavioural Sciences, Suggestibility

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2032A/B
• Professor: Jennifer Drummelsmith

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Mcmartin case: https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=wls-whiyrgw: many satanic clubs across us/canada in 70s/80s, led to many instances of child abuse, anyone can be involved good at hiding it, e. g. Mcmartin case daycare abuse case (september 1983: letter sent to parents check your child, they may have been sexually abused, molestation happened under pretense of taking child"s temperature . Are children more suggestable: easy answer = yes (but doesn"t mean we can"t work with them, social characteristics of interviews, wants to cooperate. Crime & corrections lecture 5 child victims/witnesses and young offenders: narrative elaboration, children learn to organize their stories into relevant categories, participants, settings, actions, conversation/affective states, consequences, uses pictures and line drawings , e. g. Including the judge not allowing defense to argue that some details from. Do we forget trauma: research suggests that what is happening is actively not recalling vs. forgetting of traumatic experiences, still not clear though.