Article Title：Children's memories of experienced and nonexperienced events following repeated interviews
Abstract：
The present study compared 3- and 5-year-olds' reports of a true or false play interaction following repeated interviews. Final interviews were conducted either by the same researcher or by a new researcher. Age-related improvements in performance were evident. Also, 3-year-olds questioned repeatedly about an entirely false event made more errors in response to specific questions than 3-year-olds questioned repeatedly about false details of a true event. Five-year-olds who were questioned about the false event, however, were particularly accurate when answering questions about never-experienced body touch. Interviewer familiarity was associated with decreases in the amount of narrative detail 5-year-olds provided in free-recall and with increases in 3-year-olds' accuracy in response to direct questions. Both errors and response latency on a cognitive matching task were related to children's suggestibility. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.
Keywords: children; memory; suggestibility; interviews; eyewitness testimony
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0965(02)00150-9
Source：JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
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