Eyewitness memory and suggestibility in children with mental retardation.
We examined how well children with mental retardation were able to recall a live staged event one day later compared to CA- and MA-comparable peers. Children with mental retardation performed very well on many measures of eyewitness memory performance, reaching the level of the CA-comparable group for free recall, general questions, open-ended questions, and correctly leading questions. They were, however, more suggestible in response to closed misleading questions than were children in the CA-comparable group, although they were not more suggestible than those in the MA-comparable group. Some relationships were found between a standardized measure of suggestibility and performance on the eyewitness memory task, but most of these relationships were not the same within each of our study groups.
Henry
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King's College, London. L.Henry@iop.kcl.ac.uk
Gudjonsson
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D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D003416:Criminal Law; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D013404:Suggestion; D014796:Visual Perception