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Children's and adults' realism in their event-recall confidence in responses to free recall and focused questions

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Summary, in English

Two experiments examined the realism in the confidence of 8-9-year-olds,12-13-year-olds and adults in their free recall and answers to focused questions after viewing a short videoclip. A different videoclip was shown in each experiment and the focused questions differed in difficulty. In both experiments the youngest age group, in contrast to the two other age groups, showed no overconfidence in their confidence judgements for the free recall. The free recall results also showed that the youngest group had lower completeness but similar correctness as the adults. There was a tendency, over both experiments, for the participants to show poorer realism for the focused questions than for the free recall, especially when questions with content already mentioned in the free recall were excluded from the analyses of the focused questions in Experiment1. The study shows the importance of questionformat when evaluating the credibility of the confidence shown by 8-9-year-old children in their own testimony.

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Pages

529-547

Publication/Series

Psychology, Crime and Law

Volume

14

Issue

6

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • Psychology

Keywords

  • confidence
  • focused questions
  • free recall
  • eyewitnesses
  • event memory
  • age
  • calibration

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1477-2744