Assessing children's statements: the impact of a repeated experience on CBCA and RM ratings

✍ Scribed by Leif A. Strömwall; Lina Bengtsson; Lina Leander; Pär Anders Granhag

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 126 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0888-4080
• DOI: 10.1002/acp.1021

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This study examined the extent to which the Criteria‐based Content Analysis (CBCA) technique and the Reality Monitoring (RM) technique were affected by the number of times children had experienced or imagined an event. Children (age 10–13, N =87 ) participated in an experiment where half the sample experienced a health examination (either one or four times), and the other half imagined (either one or four times) that they took part in a health examination. One week after the final occasion, the children were interviewed. The results showed that RM was sensitive to both the authenticity of the statements (increased presence of the criteria for real events) and whether the event had been repeatedly experienced/imagined (increased presence of the criteria for the repeated actions). The CBCA did not successfully distinguish the real from the imagined. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.