PSYCH 3CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Free Recall, Cognitive Interview, Structured Interview
16 Mar 2016
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Children highly suggesible: hard to separate fact vs icion. Interest in child witness; 4 factors: expert psych tesimony becoming more acceptable in courts, soc-scienists interested in research applied to real-world, studies increased on adult eyewitness tesimony, interest in behavioural science in children. 2 key themes on whether to pursue child abuse case: corroboraive evidence involved, suspect denied allegaions. Children able to recall forensic evidence, and accurately. True vs fabricated info determined by how they are asked to report. Report less info though; need quesions like what else do you remember? . Erroneous response when asked directed quesioning: also inluenced by approval/disapproval of statement by interviewer. To wh quesions, the correct idk response is heard when appropriate: but for yes/no quesions, the proper response of idk is not heard, children have problems with yes/no quesions. How quesions produced most producive info over all other types: instead of direcive/suggesive q"s.
