Memory And Child Witnesses (10) Flashcards

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Encoding

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Taking information about the world and converting it into memory

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Storage

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Representation of information in the brain

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3
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Retrieval

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How information in memory is made available

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4
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Recognition and recall

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Measure EXPLICIT memory - conscious

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5
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Factors influencing the development of memory**

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Knowledge
Mnemonic strategies
Metamemory
Culture

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6
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Strategy development**

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Rehearsal
Organisation
Elaboration

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7
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First signs of rehearsal at age…

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3

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Genuine rehearsal at age…

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5-6

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Procedural metamemory

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Awareness of how memory works e.g. what sort of things facilitate encoding
Limited until 7-8 years

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Declarative metamemory

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Knowledge about the appropriateness of mnemonics

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Suggestibility

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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

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How can interrogative suggestibility be measured

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The Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale - GSS

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Cognitive factors impacting suggestibility **

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Strength of memory
Source monitoring - keeping track of where the info came from
Scripts - older children actually more susceptible due to increased knowledge

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Social factors and suggestibility **

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Language used by questioner
Linguistic skills of the child
Pragmatic skills e.g. assumptions about responding *
Social pressures

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Younger/older children are less resistant to misleading questions in face to face interviews

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Younger

But younger generally more susceptible to suggestibility than older

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16
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Vulnerable witnesses

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All child witnesses
Mental health disorder
Significant impairment of intelligence and social functioning
Physical disability

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Intimidated witnesses

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Suffering from fear or distress in relation to testifying in the case

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When does source monitoring develop

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3-6 years