The role of maternal elaborative structure and control in children’s memory and suggestibility for a past event
| Autor: | Elizabeth Van Horn, Abigail M. Dean, Jacqueline Trumbull, Grace Gardner, Gabrielle F. Principe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Eyewitness testimony media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Style (sociolinguistics) Memory Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Conversation Narrative Misinformation Control (linguistics) media_common Narration Autobiographical memory Communication 05 social sciences Suggestibility Mother-Child Relations Child Preschool Mental Recall Female Psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 163:15-31 |
| ISSN: | 0022-0965 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jecp.2017.06.001 |
| Popis: | In this investigation, preschool-aged children experienced a staged event about which their mothers received misinformation suggesting that their children witnessed an activity that did not occur. Later, mothers were asked to talk about this event with their children. Consistent with previous research, mothers' provision of structure (defined as elaborative questions and statements) and degree of control (defined in terms of functional control of conversational turns) emerged as separate dimensions of maternal memory sharing style. When later interviewed by an unfamiliar examiner about the event, children whose mothers demonstrated both high structure and high control provided the highest levels of false reports of the activity suggested to mothers and generously embellished their accounts of this activity with nonoccurring details. In contrast, children with mothers who provided low structure, regardless of their degree of control, made few false reports and used sparse narrative detail. The implications of these findings for children's memory and suggestibility are discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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