INTERVIEWING PRESCHOOLERS - EFFECTS OF NONSUGGESTIVE TECHNIQUES, PARENTAL COACHING, AND LEADING QUESTIONS ON REPORTS OF NONEXPERIENCED EVENTS

被引:188
作者
POOLE, DA [1 ]
LINDSAY, DS [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV VICTORIA,DEPT PSYCHOL,VICTORIA,BC V8W 3P5,CANADA
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10.1006/jecp.1995.1035
中图分类号
B844 [发展心理学(人类心理学)];
学科分类号
040202 ;
摘要
This study explored preschoolers' eyewitness testimony under conditions designed to maximize (session 1) or degrade (session 2) the quality of their event reports. In session 1, thirty-nine 3- to 4-year-olds and twenty-nine 5- to 7-year-olds interacted with Mr. Science and were immediately interviewed using nonsuggestive techniques. The children did well in this immediate interview, and nonsuggestive prompts elicited substantial amounts of new accurate information. Three months later 21 of the children heard their parents read a story about Mr. Science that described experienced and nonexperienced events preparatory to an interview in which children were asked nonleading, leading, and source monitoring questions about their experiences with Mr. Science. The children made many erroneous reports in this second interview (e.g., 41% of the 3- to 4-year-olds spontaneously reported that Mr. Science had done things that were mentioned only in the story). Patterns of errors in response to free recall, leading, and source monitoring questions are described. (C) 1995 Academic Press, Inc.
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