Teoh Yee-San, Chang Teng-Fang
Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
Scand J Psychol. 2018 Dec;59(6):631-633. doi: 10.1111/sjop.12496. Epub 2018 Oct 8.
The present study compared the amount and accuracy of information Taiwanese children reported about a staged event in verbal-only and drawing-assisted interviews. We also tested further whether verbosity was a valid indicator of the accuracy of children's memory reports (Koriat & Goldsmith, , ) in a non-Western sample. Eighty-four first-grade elementary school children participated in a staged event involving a novel interactive puppet show followed by a drawing activity (drawing of the target event or the school), and were subsequently given a 10-minute memory interview. They were randomly assigned to a verbal cued-recall interview condition or a drawing-assisted interview condition. We did not find significant differences in the amount and accuracy of details reported between the two interview conditions. Our findings also revealed that the quantity of children's reports was positively related to the number of correct details reported, indicating that the children in our study did not demonstrate a quantity-accuracy tradeoff.
本研究比较了台湾儿童在仅口头和绘图辅助访谈中报告的关于一个分阶段事件的信息数量和准确性。我们还进一步测试了在非西方样本中，言语冗长是否是儿童记忆报告准确性的有效指标（科里亚特和戈德史密斯，年份）。八十四名一年级小学生参加了一个分阶段事件，该事件包括一场新颖的互动木偶表演，随后是一项绘图活动（绘制目标事件或学校），随后进行了一次10分钟的记忆访谈。他们被随机分配到口头线索回忆访谈条件或绘图辅助访谈条件。我们没有发现两种访谈条件下报告的细节数量和准确性存在显著差异。我们的研究结果还表明，儿童报告的数量与正确报告的细节数量呈正相关，这表明我们研究中的儿童没有表现出数量与准确性之间的权衡。
