Individual differences in children's and adults' suggestibility and false event memory
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2023, Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Health, First EditionAttentional difficulty is a risk factor for interrogative suggestibility in preschoolers
2020, Children and Youth Services ReviewCitation Excerpt :Although suggestibility effects in preschoolers are robust, there is always variability in same-aged children’s responses to the same types of questions (Bruck & Melnyk, 2004; Ceci, Hritz, & Royer, 2016). This intragroup variability has motivated researchers to search for individual correlates of suggestibility, so that we can better predict which children in a given age group will struggle to provide accurate testimony in the face of less-than-ideal questioning (Raju, Qin, Schaaf, & Goodman, 1997). Even if these correlates are not definitive markers of unreliability, they can nonetheless be considered ‘risk factors’ that could help researchers to understand how suggestibility can be minimised.
How children remember the Strange Situation: The role of attachment
2018, Journal of Experimental Child PsychologyCitation Excerpt :Suggestibility in the face of misleading questions is often affected by socioemotional factors rather than simply memory factors (e.g., Paz-Alonso, Goodman, & Ibabe, 2013). Because insecurely attached children may be more nervous, more approval seeking, and/or less comfortable than more secure children in social interactions with an unfamiliar adult, they may be more susceptible to demand characteristics inherent in the interview situation such as social pressure to agree with an interviewer (Quas, Qin, Schaaf, & Goodman, 1997). Hence, even when such children have relatively intact memories and do not suffer from memory deficits per se, they may still be more suggestible than securely attached children.
Fuzzy-trace theory and lifespan cognitive development
2015, Developmental ReviewCitation Excerpt :In Michaels, Buckey, and similar cases, convictions were overturned or prosecutions were challenged on the ground that children's allegations were likely to be tainted by false memories. The predictable result was the generation of an extensive literature that documented children's false memories under controlled conditions, that identified factors that cause such distortions, and that measured age variability in false memory (for reviews, see Brainerd & Reyna, 2005; Bruck & Ceci, 1999; Goodman, 2006; Quas, Qin, Schaaf, & Goodman, 1997). That literature has been put to some important uses.
Reliability of children's testimony in the era of developmental reversals
2012, Developmental ReviewCitation Excerpt :Since then, dozens of follow-up studies, conducted by many researchers in multiple countries and languages, have replicated that pattern and isolated key variables that influence it, such as delay between original events and misinformation, delay between misinformation and memory testing, plausibility of misinformation, credibility of misinformation sources, and so on. The early portion of this literature was summarized in an influential review by Ceci and Bruck (1993), and later work has been summarized in other reviews (e.g., Brainerd & Reyna, 2005; Goodman, 2006; Goodman & Schaaf, 1997; Holliday et al., 2002; Quas et al., 1997; Reyna et al., 2007). Despite the massive evidence of age declines in false memories that are implanted with the misinformation paradigm, it is natural to wonder whether the developmental reversal pattern could also be produced if this paradigm were to be modified to meet the theoretical conditions that were sketched earlier; that is, modified to be a connected-meaning task in which it is hard for developmental increases in verbatim memory to neutralize parallel increases in gist-based false memory.
Autobiographical memory development from an attachment perspective: the special role of negative events
2011, Advances in Child Development and BehaviorCitation Excerpt :Parental (as opposed to parent–child) attachment also has important implications for children's storage of negative information. Secure parents, who themselves have greater “coherence of mind” (Main et al., 1985), are likely to be better than insecure parents at discussing emotions, especially negative emotions, with their children, and thus better providing children with greater comfort and coherence of mind themselves (Quas et al., 1997). The secure base associated with a secure attachment relationship may enable them to discuss negative events with emotional openness.