Holliday, R.E. and Douglas, K.M. and Hayes, B.K (1999) Children’s eyewitness suggestibility: Memory trace strength revisited. Cognitive Development, 14 (3). pp. 443-462. ISSN 0885-2014 .
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Abstract
This study investigated memory trace strength and the eyewitness suggestibility effect in 5- and 9-year-old children. Children were first presented with a picture story and then, on the next day, were read a post-event summary containing a number of misleading details. Trace strength was manipulated by repetition of the original and/or the post-event details. Children were given either a standard or a modified recognition test on their memories for picture story details one day after presentation of misleading suggestions. Both age groups were found to be suggestible in each recognition test condition. On the modified test, suggestibility was greatest when the post-event trace was strong and the original trace was weak. Theoretical accounts of the suggestibility effect in children and of memory trace strength are discussed in the light of these findings.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
| Depositing User: | Karen Douglas |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jun 2009 00:22 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jun 2009 00:22 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/18930 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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