Recalling an event one year later: the impact of props, drawing and a prior interview
✍ Scribed by Karen Salmon; Margaret-Ellen Pipe
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 188 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0888-4080
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✦ Synopsis
One hundred and one 5-year-old children were interviewed about a routine health assessment carried out at school following delays of both 3 days and 1 year or 1 year only. Children were interviewed with prototypical medical items and a doll ( props), with verbal prompts only (verbal), or with drawing (drawing). There was a decrease in both the amount and the accuracy of the information children reported over the 1-year delay, but no eect of the prior (3-day) interview. Children interviewed with props recalled more information than those asked to draw or interviewed with verbal prompts only, particularly at the long delay. Correct information was more likely to be repeated across interviews than were errors, and, whereas information repeated across interviews was highly reliable, information introduced for the ®rst time after 1 year was not, particularly when children drew. These ®ndings have important implications in applied contexts such as when children are called upon to provide testimony following very long delays.