PSYCH 2650 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Confabulation, Free Recall, Suggestibility
26 Sep 2016
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Ceci and brooks: children"s suggestibility: de nitional issues! 2. ! interviewer bias: interviewers who have strong expectations and shape the interview to con rm them by ignoring contradictory evidence and selectively reinforcing consistent evidence! 1. ! traditional forms of suggestion: leading questions, pressurized interrogations! 2. ! other various factors: failure to test alternative hypotheses, selective reinforcement of responses, posing hypotheticals! Interviewer bias: the central characteristic of suggestive interviews! 2. ! interviewers who hold a priori beliefs & shape the interview accordingly! avoids asking questions that might lead to contradictory evidence! 1. ! when provided with bizarre or contradictory evidence, interviewer ignores it or reinterprets! Thompson, clarke-stweart, lepore (1997): children watched chester behave aggressively with dolls, and then questioned either in an accusatory, exculpatory, and neutral manner! Bruck et al. (1999): bias taints responses of children and interviewers; birthday party bias interviewers also continue to report false claims, or make each narrative t what they believed the children to have experienced!
