Improving Children’s Interviewing Methods? The Effects of Drawing and Practice on Children’s Memories for an Event

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dc.contributor.authorOtgaar, H., Ansem, R., Pauw, C., & Horselenberg, R.
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-10T16:51:16Z
dc.date.available2016-06-10T16:51:16Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractIn the present experiment, we were interested in the effects of drawings and practice on children’s memory performance. Younger (6/7-year-olds; n = 37) and older (11/12-year-olds; n = 44) children were presented with two videos that differed in complexity. Half of the children had to practice recalling an experienced event (i.e., last holiday) before remembering the two videos. The other half was not presented with such practice. Then, all children had to tell what they could still recollect about the first video. For the second video, all children were allowed to draw and tell during the recollection of the event. As expected, we found that for the complex video, making a drawing increased the completeness of children’s statements, but also reduced the accuracy of their statements. Although we found that including practice reduced the completeness of statements, it did not negatively impact the accuracy of children’s memory reports. Taken together, our results imply that interviewers should be cautious in using drawings as an interviewing method as it might elevate the production of incorrect information.en_US
dc.identifier.citationOtgaar, H., Ansem, R., Pauw, C., & Horselenberg, R. (2016). Improving Children’s Interviewing Methods? The Effects of Drawing and Practice on Children’s Memories for an Event. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 1-9.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11896-016-9190-0
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/2802
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Police and Criminal Psychologyen_US
dc.subjectforensic interviewen_US
dc.subjectchild sexual abuseen_US
dc.subjectdrawingen_US
dc.subjectmemoryen_US
dc.titleImproving Children’s Interviewing Methods? The Effects of Drawing and Practice on Children’s Memories for an Eventen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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