PSYC39H3 Chapter 6: chapter 6 notes
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Recall for events: research suggests that the accuracy of children"s reporting is highly dependent on how they are asked to report. 2 directions have been taken to understand children"s greater propensity towards suggestibility: 1 focus: social compliance. children may respond to suggestive influences because they trust and want to cooperate with adult interviewers: 2nd focus: changes to cognitive system. research found developmental differences in the ways children and adults encode, store and retrieve memories. differences found in terms of forgetting and retention. Interviewers need to balance asking direct questions with the risk of obtaining false info. Should they be used: no specification or guidelines are available for manufacturers, wide variation exists, no standard procedure for scoring behaviours children exhibit when playing with dolls. Other techniques for interviewing children: criterion-based content analysis, criterion-based content analysis: analysis using criteria to distinguish truthful from false statements made by children.
