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Brown, Deirdre A.; Lewis, Charlie N.; Lamb, Michael E.; Gwynne, Jessie; Kitto, Oliver; Stairmand, Meghan – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Children often answer questions when they do not have the requisite knowledge or when they do not understand them. We examined whether "ground rules" instruction--to say "I don't know," to tell the truth, and to correct the interviewer when necessary--assisted children in applying those rules during an interview about a past…
Descriptors: Interviews, Comparative Analysis, Mental Age, Predictor Variables
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Brown, Deirdre A.; Lewis, Charlie N.; Lamb, Michael E.; Stephens, Emma – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2012
Objective: To examine the ability of children with intellectual disabilities to give reliable accounts of personally experienced events, considering the effects of delay, severity of disability, and the types of interview prompt used. Method: In a between-subjects design, we compared children with intellectual disabilities (7-12 years) that fell…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Mental Retardation, Severity (of Disability), Mental Age