Date of Award
1996
Degree Name
Psychology
College
College of Liberal Arts
Type of Degree
M.A.
Document Type
Thesis
First Advisor
Marc A. Lindberg
Second Advisor
Leonard J. Deutsch
Abstract
Three programs for the testing of elementary school students' eyewitness testimonies were tested and compared. Three different types of investigative interviews were used. The first was the investigative interview currently in use by West Virginia Child Protective Services. The second was an interview procedure developed by Yuille et al. (1993) called the Step-Wise Interview. The third method was a modified version of the Step-Wise Interview, which included changes based upon recent literature. Students from developmental & experimental psychology classes were trained in one of the three techniques. First and second grade children first viewed a movie and were then interviewed by one of the experimenta1 or developmental psychology students. Results showed that no single interview method was, overall, significantly more effective at producing more recall accuracy and less confabulation from the children. Various strengths and weaknesses were identified for each of the interviewing methods. These results were discussed in relation to their implication for child abuse investigations.
Subject(s)
Interviewing in child abuse.
Recommended Citation
Chapman, Mary, "Comparison of three different investigative interview techniques with young children" (1996). Theses, Dissertations and Capstones. 1582.
https://mds.marshall.edu/etd/1582
Included in
Child Psychology Commons, Comparative Psychology Commons, Experimental Analysis of Behavior Commons
