a School of Psychology , Deakin University , Burwood , VIC , Australia.
b Centre for Investigative Interviewing , Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University , Mount Gravatt , Australia.
Memory. 2019 Apr;27(4):561-567. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2018.1529798. Epub 2018 Oct 7.
Much research has tested techniques to improve children's reporting of episodes from a repeated event by interviewing children after they have experienced multiple episodes of a scripted event. However, these studies have not considered any effects of the similarity shared between event episodes on children's reports. In the current study, 5- to 9-year-olds experienced four episodes of a scripted repeated event that shared a high (n = 76) or low (n = 76) degree of similarity, and were subsequently interviewed about individual episodes. The proportional amount and accuracy of children's reported details were tallied. Children reported proportionally more details and more script deviations after experiencing the high, compared to low, similarity event. Conversely, children were more accurate in their episodic reports when they experienced the low, compared to high, similarity event. The current findings have implications for the generalisability and comparability of past results across laboratory studies.
许多研究已经测试了通过在儿童经历多次脚本事件后对其进行采访来提高儿童对重复事件的情节报告的技术。然而，这些研究没有考虑事件情节之间共享的相似性对儿童报告的任何影响。在当前的研究中，5 至 9 岁的儿童经历了四个脚本重复事件的情节，这些情节具有高度（n=76）或低度（n=76）的相似性，随后对每个情节进行了采访。记录了儿童报告的细节的比例和准确性。与经历低相似性事件相比，儿童在经历高相似性事件后，报告的细节比例更高，脚本偏差更多。相反，与经历高相似性事件相比，儿童在经历低相似性事件时，对情节的报告更准确。当前的发现对实验室研究中过去结果的普遍性和可比性具有启示意义。
