PSYCH211 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Stethoscope, Teddy Bear, Pediatrics
23 Jan 2017
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The suggestibility of young children by maggie bruck and stephen j. ceci. In this article, bruck and ceci provide an overview of the results of newer studies of children"s suggestibility. Interviewer bias characterizes an interviewer who holds prior beliefs about the occurrence of a certain event and, as a result, molds the interview to evoke from the interviewee statements that are consistent with these prior beliefs. The single-minded attempt to gather confirmatory evidence and avoid questions that produce disconfirmatory evidence. The evidence is either ignored or interpreted as a point to support the biased interviewer"s initial hypothesis. List different sources suggestibility mentioned in the article. Discuss the results of the, two types of studies mentioned in the article where an interviewer was either: 8: intentionally conveying bias that is either consistent or inconsistent with the staged event, given false information and instructed to question children and are unaware of deliberate deception to carry out bias.
