EWT

EWT

1. Memory and Suggestibility

   • Feben
     • Firefighter: good at remembering at details, but no sequences: good encoding, poor retrieving
   • Oschner
     • Theft study: better memory for crimes over neutral events=arousal.
       • Neutral events not relevant in testing
   • Rudy & Goodman
     • Simon Says: participants and observers, test 1 week after. Older children more information overall. 4 YO as susceptible as 7YO to leading questions, 4YO observers more susceptible to misleading questions
   • Dempster
     • Memory span increases with age

2. Trauma

   • Critical lures
     • Neutral and negative emotion critical lures
       • Better memory for neutral, more errors for neutral, older children remember more. Associative network for emotional information earlier
   • Small sample, difficult to test, time lag, ethics

3. Source Monitoring

   • Video and Live
   • Poor at remembering the source of the information