Extra Credit. Worth up to 3 points. Must address all questions.
Instructions. For each question
1) bold the correct answer (all parts, not only the letter).
2) explain why the answer you selected is correct and the implications for interviewing children in forensic contexts.
3) provide a supporting resource (e.g., reading reference in APA style and page number, APA style reference for a course lecture that provided support for your response and audio timestamp).
4) Save as a PDF and submit.
Example: Professionals who work with children are able to distinguish consistently between children’s true reports of an event from false reports that emerge through suggestive questioning techniques.
A. True
B. False
Some children are resilient in the face of misinformation; however, possible exposure to outside sources and suggested information must be considered when evaluating the reliability of childrens testimony because true accounts do not contain features that reliably distinguish them from false reports (Ceci, Kulkofsky, Klemfuss, Sweeney, & Bruck, 2007). Research shows that adults (including child maltreatment professionals) are not able to consistently identify true details from false details when suggested information has influenced a childs report and so, it is imperative that interviewers question children in non-suggestive ways and attempt to understand the context of prior disclosures.
Ceci, S. J., Kulkofsky, S., Klemfuss, J. Z, Sweeney, C. D., & Bruck, M. (2007).
Unwarranted assumptions about childrens testimonial accuracy. Annual Review
of Clinical Psychology, 3, 311328.
Support can be found on pp. 320322. See unwarranted assumption #6.
1. Which of the following statements is FALSE?
A. Younger children typically recall less information than older children.
B. Younger children are NOT very accurate when responding to open-ended prompts like “Tell me what happened.
C. Young children are likely to omit information that adults consider important.
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2. Quas, Thompson, & Clarke-Stewart (2005) surveyed adults’ perceptions of children’s ability to remember and found that 64% of adults agreed with the statement, “If a child has been repeatedly and painfully sexually abused as an infant, he or she can remember it.” Which of the following is TRUE concerning children’s ability to remember their experiences during infancy?
A. Children under the age of 8 years are able to accurately report the central details of painful and stressful experiences that occurred during infancy.
B. Children of all ages are able to remember experiences they had during infancy, regardless of whether the experience was positive, negative, or neutral.
C. Research does NOT support that children would have the ability to remember events that occurred during infancy including stressful or painful experiences.
D. Older children are more likely to remember details of painful and stressful experiences that occurred during infancy than are younger children.
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3. Which of the following is FALSE regarding suggestibility and child witnesses?
A. Children can incorporate misleading information into their event reports but only after multiple suggestive interviews.
B. Children often have a difficult time monitoring the source of their knowledge.
C. Simply telling children “you’re doing a great job telling me about how he hurt you” can influence the reliability of their event report.
D. Children can incorporate misleading information into their event reports after a single suggestive interview.
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4. Garven and colleagues (2000) conducted a study in which kindergarten children were asked to recall details from when a visitor named Paco visited their classroom. Half of the children were given interviews that included misleading questions about plausible events (e.g., Did Paco break a toy?) and bizarre events (e.g., Did Paco take you to a farm in a helicopter?). Some of these children were also given negative feedback to their no responses and positive feedback to their yes responses. Two weeks later, children were questioned again about their visit with
Paco in a neutral interview (i.e., a good interview with no misleading information). Findings from this study demonstrated
A. children were accurate when interviewed in an unbiased manner two weeks after the misleading interview.
B. interviewer bias in earlier interviews can taint childrens later reports even if the later reports are conducted in an unbiased manner.?
C. children were very accurate in recalling Pacos visit regardless of how they were interviewed.
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