Parental Coaching and Children's Reports of Nonexperienced Events: The Contributions of Forgetting, Source Monitoring, and Acquiesence

父母辅导和儿童对未经历过的事件的报告：遗忘、来源监控和默许的贡献

• 批准号: 9409231
• 负责人: Debra Poole
• 金额: $ 9万
• 依托单位: Central Michigan University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-08-15 至 1996-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9409231&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Parental; Coaching; Children; Reports; Nonexperienced

9409231 POOLE This project will use a powerful new suggestibility manipulation to examine several important issues concerning the strengths and weaknesses of children as witnesses. The technique, an analog of parental involvement in false allegations of abuse, is fully piloted and involves no deception. In Phase 1, children between the ages of 3 and 8 years will participate in a series of events and will be interviewed to determine what they can report about those events. Three months later, parents will read the children a story that includes descriptions of events the children had experienced and events they had not experienced. The children will then be reinterviewed on two occasions with a stepwise procedure in which nonsuggestive questions are followed by leading questions and a series of questions that specifically ask the children to distinguish between events they experienced and events they only heard described. Because the interview procedures yield information about individual differences in recall, forgetting, acquiescence (i.e., saying "yes" to a suggestion), and source monitoring (i.e., distinguishing between memories from several sources), these data will be a first step in constructing a systematic theory of the factors responsible for developmental changes in suggestibility. This project will accomplish the following goals: (a) trace developmental trends in susceptibility to false information provided by parents; (b) evaluate the types of false reports that are elicited by interview procedures with varying degrees of prompting; (c) evaluate developmental changes in recall, acquiescence, and memory source monitoring; and (d) test the adequacy of various causal models that specify the contributions of these processes to children's suggestibility. The resulting data will have important implications for how investigations of child abuse allegations are conducted, and will contribute to the development of interview procedures that more adequat ely test alternative hypotheses about the sources of children's reports. ***

9409231 POOLE这个项目将使用一个强大的新的可辨认性操纵来检查几个重要的问题，关于儿童作为证人的优势和劣势。 该技术是一种模拟父母参与虚假虐待指控的技术，完全是试验性的，不涉及欺骗。 在第一阶段，3至8岁的儿童将参加一系列活动，并将接受采访，以确定他们可以报告有关这些活动的内容。 三个月后，父母会给孩子们读一个故事，其中包括对孩子们经历过的事件和他们没有经历过的事件的描述。 然后，孩子们将在两个场合进行分步式的重新访谈，其中非暗示性问题之后是引导性问题和一系列问题，这些问题专门要求孩子区分他们经历的事件和他们只听到描述的事件。 因为访谈程序产生了关于回忆、遗忘、默许（即，对建议说“是”），以及源监控（即，这些数据将是构建一个系统的理论的第一步，该理论的因素负责发展变化的可重复性。 本研究将完成以下目标：（a）追踪对父母提供的虚假信息的敏感性的发展趋势;（B）评估不同程度的提示下的面谈程序所引起的虚假报告的类型;（c）评估回忆、默许和记忆源监测的发展变化;以及（d）测试各种因果模型的适当性，这些模型具体说明了这些过程对儿童可吸收性的贡献。 由此产生的数据将对如何调查虐待儿童的指控进行了重要的影响，并将有助于发展的采访程序，更充分伊利测试有关儿童的报告来源的替代假设。 ***