Memory And Child Witnesses (10) Flashcards
Encoding
Taking information about the world and converting it into memory
Storage
Representation of information in the brain
Retrieval
How information in memory is made available
Recognition and recall
Measure EXPLICIT memory - conscious
Factors influencing the development of memory**
Knowledge
Mnemonic strategies
Metamemory
Culture
Strategy development**
Rehearsal
Organisation
Elaboration
First signs of rehearsal at age…
3
Genuine rehearsal at age…
5-6
Procedural metamemory
Awareness of how memory works e.g. what sort of things facilitate encoding
Limited until 7-8 years
Declarative metamemory
Knowledge about the appropriateness of mnemonics
Suggestibility
The extent to which, within a closed social interaction, people come to accept messages communicated during formal questioning, as a result of which their subsequent behavioural response is affected
How can interrogative suggestibility be measured
The Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale - GSS
Cognitive factors impacting suggestibility **
Strength of memory
Source monitoring - keeping track of where the info came from
Scripts - older children actually more susceptible due to increased knowledge
Social factors and suggestibility **
Language used by questioner
Linguistic skills of the child
Pragmatic skills e.g. assumptions about responding *
Social pressures
Younger/older children are less resistant to misleading questions in face to face interviews
Younger
But younger generally more susceptible to suggestibility than older
