O'Connell Michael J, Garmoe William, Goldstein Naomi E Sevin
National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia, USA. Michael.J.O'
Law Hum Behav. 2005 Jun;29(3):359-69. doi: 10.1007/s10979-005-2965-y.
Interrogations present several major challenges to persons with mental retardation (MR). Sixty adults with mild MR completed measures of Miranda comprehension and tendency to yield to leading questions. In addition, suggestibility was assessed based on whether participants revised answers to questions in response to unfriendly, friendly, or neutral feedback to original responses. Furthermore, we examined how expressed confidence in answers to repeated questions varied with the type of feedback received. Results revealed that participants demonstrated marked difficulties understanding their Miranda rights and greater likelihood of changing answers to questions for which they received friendly feedback than for questions for which they received unfriendly or neutral feedback. Most participants who received positive reinforcement for their answers on a second trial expressed confidence about improvement from trial 1 to trial 2, although accuracy did not improve. Implications of these results are reviewed.
讯问对智力迟钝者提出了几个重大挑战。六十名轻度智力迟钝的成年人完成了米兰达规则理解测试以及对诱导性问题的屈从倾向测试。此外，根据参与者是否会根据对原始回答的不友好、友好或中性反馈来修改问题答案，对受暗示性进行了评估。此外，我们还研究了对重复问题答案所表达的信心如何随所收到的反馈类型而变化。结果显示，参与者在理解米兰达权利方面存在明显困难，而且与收到不友好或中性反馈的问题相比，他们更有可能因收到友好反馈而改变问题答案。在第二次测试中因答案得到积极强化的大多数参与者表示相信自己从第一次测试到第二次测试有进步，尽管准确性并未提高。本文对这些结果的意义进行了综述。
