Interviewing Children

Question 1

Carter et al (1996)

Answer 1

Children will respond to complex questions with less correct responses and are more likely to say something happened when it didn’t than when responding to simple questions

Question 2

Flavell et al (1981)

Answer 2

Children will say that they understand ambiguous instructions when they could not have

Question 3

Vocabulary Development

Answer 3

Children have good vocabulary by aged 5 but it continues to develop well into middle school years and beyond

Question 4

Waterman et al (2004, 2011, 2014)

Answer 4

Children are less likely to appropriately respond ‘don’t know’ to a question if: the question is yes/ no, they have poorer vocab, they have lower self-esteem, they believe that the interviewer already knows the answer

Question 5

Nesbitt & Markham (1999)

Answer 5

children aged 3-5 can be trained in the acceptability of don’t know responses to questions, meaning they then gave more don’t know responses, fewer incorrect and fewer correct responses

Question 6

Moston (1987)

Answer 6

against pre-interview training in the acceptability of saying don’t know

Question 7

Teoh & Lamb (2010)

Answer 7

simply telling children that saying don’t know is acceptable when being interviewed helps them be more useful, especially young children

Question 8

Fisher & Geiselman (1992)

Answer 8

Enhanced Cognitive Interview: reinstating the context, changing perspectives, changing orders

Question 9

Memon et al (2010)

Answer 9

meta-analysis shows E-CI is effective when interviewing adults

Question 10

Memon et al (1998)

Answer 10

children may struggle with understanding some of the instructions in the cognitive interview e.g. changing perspectives

Question 11

Verkampt & Ginet (2009)

Answer 11

use an interactive painting session to show that the cognitive interview is better than the standard structured interview when interviewing children for information, also the change order instructions lowers subsequent suggestibility
high ecological validity but no stress

Question 12

LaPaglia et al (2014)

Answer 12

cognitive interview increases subsequent acceptance of misinformation

Question 13

Kendall (1992)

Answer 13

anatomical dolls can be used with children to see if they exhibit abnormal playing behaviour e.g. avoiding the dolls altogether, oral-genital contact

Question 14

Jampole & Weber (1987)

Answer 14

the use of dolls can differentiate between abuse victims and controls

Question 15

Cohn (1991)

Answer 15

the use of dolls cannot differentiate between abuse victims and controls

Question 16

Poole & Dickinson (2011)

Answer 16

the use of dolls in combination with direct questioning makes older children more likely to answer off topic