Eyewitness Memory, Suggestibility, and Repeated Recall Sessions in Children with Mild and Moderate Intellectual Disabilities

This study of eyewitness memory questioned children with mild and moderate intellectual disabilities (ID) about a live staged event 1 day later and, again, 2 weeks later. Children with mild ID performed as well as typically-developing children of the same age in response to free recall instructions,...

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Published in:Law and human behavior 2003-10, Vol.27 (5), p.481-505
Main Authors: Henry, Lucy A, Gudjonsson, Gisli H
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age
Child
Child molestation
Child, Preschool
Children
Children & youth
Control Groups
Disabilities
Disability
Disabled Children - psychology
Eyewitness memory
Female
Free Recall
Human
Humans
Intellectual Development Disorder
Intellectual disabilities
Intellectual disability
Intellectual Disability - classification
Intellectual Disability - psychology
Intelligence Tests
Interview, Psychological
Interviews
Laboratories
Male
Memory
Mental Recall
Nondirective interviews
Peer Group
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Retention (Psychology)
School age children
Students - psychology
Studies
Suggestibility
Suggestion
Time Factors
Witnesses
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Summary:This study of eyewitness memory questioned children with mild and moderate intellectual disabilities (ID) about a live staged event 1 day later and, again, 2 weeks later. Children with mild ID performed as well as typically-developing children of the same age in response to free recall instructions, and they were just as able as same age peers to resist misleading questions. However, they performed more poorly on general questions, probing for further information after free recall. The children with mild ID also changed their responses to specific questions more often in the repeated interview. The group of children with moderate ID showed markedly lower performance than peers of the same age on nearly every type of eyewitness memory question. Comparisons of the children with ID to mental age-matched peers indicated that performance was similar, although children with ID gave more information in response to free recall instructions and changed their answers in the repeated interview more often. Standardized measures of verbal memory (TOMAL) and suggestibility (Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale) were modest to moderate predictors of eyewitness memory performance.
ISSN:0147-7307
1573-661X
DOI:10.1023/A:1025434022699