TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1999//
TI  - 'What colour is your pet dinosaur?' The impact of pre-interview training and question type on children's answers
JO  - Legal and criminological psychology
A1  - Gee, Susan
A1  - Gregory, Marian
A1  - Pipe, Margaret-Ellen
SP  - 111
EP  - 128
VL  - 4
IS  - 1
N2  - Purpose. Two studies evaluated the effects of question type and of brief pre-interview training, involving instructions and practice, on the number of correct answers and errors given by children in a structured interview.Methods. A total of 157 children aged from nine to 13 were interviewed about a visit to a science centre with both misleading and non-misleading open and closed questions. The children also rated their confidence in each of their answers. Half the children received pre-interview training designed to discourage compliance and guessing.Results. In Study 1 pre-interview training decreased commission errors to misleading questions, but also decreased the number of correct responses to non-misleading questions. In Study 2 a revised training package decreased errors for misleading questions without impacting on correct responses.Conclusions. Brief pre-interview interventions can reduce children's compliance with misleading questions in experimental situations. Both studies provided some support for the cognitive processing hypothesis that the confidence-accuracy relationship will be stronger for open than for closed questions.<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 1355-3259
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1348/135532599167716
ID  - ref1
ER  -