Human Figure Drawings and Children’s Recall of Touching

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dc.contributor.authorBruck, M.
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-27T14:32:22Z
dc.date.available2022-06-27T14:32:22Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractIn 2 studies, children ages 3 to 7 years were asked to recall a series of touches that occurred during a previous staged event. The recall interview took place 1 week after the event in Study 1 and immediately after the event in Study 2. Each recall interview had 2 sections: In 1 section, children were given human figure drawings (HFDs) and were asked to show where the touching took place; in the other section, the same questions were asked without the HFDs (verbal condition). Children were randomly assigned to 2 different conditions: HFD 1st/verbal 2nd or verbal 1st/HFD 2nd. There were 2 major findings. First, HFDs elicited more errors than the verbal condition when used to probe for information that the child had already been asked. Second, regardless of interview method, children had poor recall of the touches even when these occurred minutes before the interview. It is suggested that cognitive mechanisms involving memory and semantics underlie children’s poor recall of touching in both verbal and HFD conditions.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBruck, M. (2009). Human figure drawings and children’s recall of touching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 15(4), 361.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2842092/
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/5451
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Experimental Psychology: Applieden_US
dc.subjectchild sexual abuseen_US
dc.subjectforensic interviewen_US
dc.subjecthuman figure drawingsen_US
dc.subjectresearchen_US
dc.subjectsymbolic developmenten_US
dc.subjectmemoryen_US
dc.titleHuman Figure Drawings and Children’s Recall of Touchingen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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