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Title
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Event type and individual differences in children's false-memory creation.
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Creator
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Brown, Rhonda Douglas, Florida Atlantic University, Bjorklund, David F.
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Abstract/Description
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This series of experiments was designed to address two major questions concerning children's false-memory creation: (1) Are events that involve physical harm content more difficult to implant than events that do not involve physical harm content? and (2) Are individuals with particular cognitive and personality attributes more likely to create false-memories than others? In Experiment 1, 27 first-graders were presented with descriptions of two fictitious events (1 physical harm, 1 no physical...
Show moreThis series of experiments was designed to address two major questions concerning children's false-memory creation: (1) Are events that involve physical harm content more difficult to implant than events that do not involve physical harm content? and (2) Are individuals with particular cognitive and personality attributes more likely to create false-memories than others? In Experiment 1, 27 first-graders were presented with descriptions of two fictitious events (1 physical harm, 1 no physical harm) and two true events (1 physical harm, 1 no physical harm). Furthermore, individual differences in image descriptions, inhibition, verbal intelligence, working memory capacity and teacher ratings of cognitive and personality attributes were assessed. Results indicated that children generated more detailed accounts for fictitious events that did not involve physical harm in comparison to those that did. Furthermore, individual differences in image descriptions, verbal intelligence and teacher ratings of creativity, extroversion and risk taking were found. For Experiment 2, one-half of participants were presented with descriptions of two fictitious and two true events that involved physical harm content. The other one-half of participants were presented with descriptions of two fictitious and 2 true events that did not involve physical harm content. Furthermore, all children were told that two of the events (1 fictitious, 1 true) happened when they were very young and that the other two events (1 fictitious, 1 true) happened during the previous year. Individual differences in picture memory, inhibition and creativity were also assessed. The analyses failed to yield significant differences for event type or age of event occurrence. However, individual differences in creativity were related to children's false reports.
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Date Issued
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1998
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12579
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Subject Headings
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False memory syndrome, Memory in children
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Format
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Document (PDF)
