PSYC 376 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Teddy Bear, Wet Wipe, Free Recall
15 May 2016
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Psychology 376: unit 5: some causes of children"s suggestibility. Describe the various ways that misleading suggestions can be introduced to children. Describe the methodologies that have been used to study the influence of misleading suggestions on children"s reports. New information contained in the suggestive question may be accurate or it may be inaccurate: leading question or misleading question. The integrity of the child"s report will be compromised whether it be leading or misleading. Studies have shown that suggestive questions can lead children to report central details about personally experienced events that are not true. When not presented with biasing information, children in all 4 age groups recalled the same amount of information. With bias, younger preschoolers were more suggestible than older children. A large number of children reported that a science demonstration they had only heard about really had happened and the sexualized details happened too.
