PSYC 376 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hot Air Balloon, Free Recall, Enema
19 Apr 2017
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U(cid:374)it 6: childre(cid:374)"s suggesti(cid:271)ility challenges and responses. The literature you read in unit 5 has been and continues to be criticized on the basis of generalizability. In addition to critical evaluation being a characteristic of good science, it is especially important in the context of children"s suggestibility because the implications of suggestibility research can be profound. In this unit you will learn about challenges to some of the early research on children"s suggestibility and how researchers have responded to the criticisms. In particular, researchers have begun to simulate circumstances that are more similar to those experienced by child witnesses. Many of the conclusions based on the kind of research described in unit 5 generalize to circumstances that are more like the circumstances of the child witness. In unit 5, the studies concerned children"s false reports of details of events that had occurred.
