How Mother's Belief in Misinformation Impact's their Children's Memory
School Name
Governor's School for Science and Mathematics
Grade Level
12th Grade
Presentation Topic
Psychology and Sociology
Presentation Type
Mentored
Written Paper Award
2nd Place
Abstract
It is known that interviewer bias is able to influence how children recall events (Ceci and Bruck, 1993; Bruck, Ceci, and Hembrooke, 2002). Principe et al. (2013) found that when mothers have been misinformed about their children’s experiences it can lead to children’s false report of events. In this study, we manipulated mother’s belief in the misinformation and their degree of control to examine how these factors can influence children’s memory recall. In this study, we used those two categories of mothers and then used a belief manipulation in order to make the two categories into four: outcome-oriented/strong suggestion, process-oriented/strong suggestion, outcome-oriented/weak suggestion, and process-oriented/weak suggestion. The results concluded that the two groups of mothers who were given the strong suggestion manipulation had a higher belief. Those mothers also were the most biased in their conversations with their children. The children of the outcome oriented/ strong suggestion mothers made the most false reports had the most details in their false reports.
Recommended Citation
Tatusko, Kathleen, "How Mother's Belief in Misinformation Impact's their Children's Memory" (2018). South Carolina Junior Academy of Science. 95.
https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/scjas/2018/all/95
Location
Neville 305
Start Date
4-14-2018 9:30 AM
Presentation Format
Oral and Written
How Mother's Belief in Misinformation Impact's their Children's Memory
Neville 305
It is known that interviewer bias is able to influence how children recall events (Ceci and Bruck, 1993; Bruck, Ceci, and Hembrooke, 2002). Principe et al. (2013) found that when mothers have been misinformed about their children’s experiences it can lead to children’s false report of events. In this study, we manipulated mother’s belief in the misinformation and their degree of control to examine how these factors can influence children’s memory recall. In this study, we used those two categories of mothers and then used a belief manipulation in order to make the two categories into four: outcome-oriented/strong suggestion, process-oriented/strong suggestion, outcome-oriented/weak suggestion, and process-oriented/weak suggestion. The results concluded that the two groups of mothers who were given the strong suggestion manipulation had a higher belief. Those mothers also were the most biased in their conversations with their children. The children of the outcome oriented/ strong suggestion mothers made the most false reports had the most details in their false reports.
