TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - The effect of event context on children's recall of non-experienced events across multiple interviews
JO  - Legal and criminological psychology
A1  - Jones, Carolyn H.
A1  - Powell, Martine B.
SP  - 83
EP  - 101
VL  - 10
IS  - 1
N2  - Purpose. The current study examined whether young children's willingness to assent to, and provide details about, a false (non-experienced) activity differs depending on whether the activity was allegedly embedded within (a) a specific event or (b) a broad (non-specified) time frame.Method. Ninety-nine children aged 4-5 years (from both low and high socio-economic backgrounds) either (a) participated in a staged event that consisted of two activities or (b) did not participate in the staged event. One or two days later, all children were given false suggestions about a non-experienced (false) activity that had either high or low plausibility. Approximately 8, 15, and 22 days after the event, children were asked to recall the activities, and to answer a series of specific cued-recall questions.Results. There was no effect of event context on assent rates, and the rate at which children reported interviewer suggestions. However, children who participated in the staged event provided fewer details about the false activity. Further, among those children who assented to the false activity, fewer subjects, objects, actions, temporal markers, locations, fantastic/improbable details, and confabulation errors were reported when the activity was embedded within the specific staged event.Conclusion. The degree of error in children's accounts of a completely false activity is reduced when the activity is suggested to have occurred within a specified event as opposed to a broad (non-specified) time frame.<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 1355-3259
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1348/135532504X15312
ID  - ref1
ER  -