Suggestibility In The Child Witness: Cognitive, Social, Motivational And Biological Factors
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5
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5 pages in length. Credibility of witness testimony relies exclusively upon accuracy and truthfulness, two components that rarely exist when people are asked to recall events that were traumatic or occurred enough in the past for those memories to become distorted. Children as credible witnesses pose the same concerns as their adult counterparts where the suggestibility factors of cognitive, social, motivational and biological are concerned. The extent to which errors, mistakes, confusion, lies, contamination, distortion and pseudomemory all play an integral role is both grand and far-reaching; that children can be impressionable when called upon to recall the events they think they are required to bring forth speaks to the manipulative components behind the aforementioned factors. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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