PSYC 3020 Lecture Notes - Guided Imagery, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Cognitive Interview
4 Apr 2013
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Ceci and bruck ( 1993) outlined four factors that led to the renewed interest in child witnesses: 1. Expert psychological testimony was becoming more acceptable in the courtroom: 2. Social scientists were interested in research that could be applied to real-world problems: 3. Studies on adult eyewitness testimony were increasing: 4. The legal community became interested in behavioural science research regarding: child witnesses. With free narrative, accuracy is comparable w adults. Direct questions w yes or no or forced response format are problematic for pre-schoolers leading, direct questions produce a more erroneous response. Social compliance: a response believed to be desired by interviewer. Differences in the way children and adults store, retrieve and encode. When direct questions were posed, children 3 to 6 years old were more likely to use the dolls to social and cognitive factors are responsible for suggestibility reenact what occurred than to report verbally.
