Greenstock J, Pipe M E
Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Child Abuse Negl. 1996 Jan;20(1):69-80. doi: 10.1016/0145-2134(95)00117-4.
The present experiment investigated the influence of peer support and leading and misleading questions on children's reports of a neutral event. Twenty-four children aged between 5 and 7 years and 24 children aged between 8 and 10 years took part in an event which focused on the parts and functions of the human body. Three days later they were interviewed about the event either alone or with a same-sex peer. The younger children recalled less information than the older children during prompted recall, and both age groups made very few errors. For questions, younger children made significantly more errors in response to directly misleading questions that to indirectly misleading questions. Both age groups were very accurate in response to directly and indirectly leading questions. Peer support did not influence children's prompted recall reports about the event or their responses to questions. These results are discussed in the context of their implications for interviewing children about past events.
本实验研究了同伴支持以及引导性和误导性问题对儿童关于中性事件报告的影响。24名5至7岁的儿童和24名8至10岁的儿童参与了一项聚焦于人体部位和功能的活动。三天后，他们要么单独接受关于该活动的访谈，要么与一名同性同伴一起接受访谈。在提示回忆过程中，年幼儿童比年长儿童回忆的信息少，且两个年龄组都很少出错。对于问题，年幼儿童在回答直接误导性问题时比回答间接误导性问题时犯的错误明显更多。两个年龄组在回答直接和间接引导性问题时都非常准确。同伴支持并未影响儿童关于该活动的提示回忆报告或他们对问题的回答。本文将结合这些结果对访谈儿童过往事件的意义进行讨论。
