Getting the Picture: Effects of Sketch Plans and Photographs on Children's, Adolescents' and Adults' Eyewitness Recall.
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| Title: | Getting the Picture: Effects of Sketch Plans and Photographs on Children's, Adolescents' and Adults' Eyewitness Recall. |
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| Authors: | Jack, Fiona, Martyn, Elise, Zajac, Rachel |
| Source: | Applied Cognitive Psychology. Sep/Oct2015, Vol. 29 Issue 5, p723-734. 12p. 1 Diagram, 3 Charts. |
| Subjects: | Witnesses, Photographs, Drawing, Children, Teenagers, Adults, Visual aids |
| Abstract: | We compared the effects of three types of visual aid on free recall across three age groups in an eyewitness paradigm. Child, adolescent and adult participants (N = 144) viewed a short film depicting a non-violent crime and, following a brief delay, gave a free-recall account. Participants then described the event once again, with the aid of their own sketch plan, a provided sketch plan or photograph, or with no visual aid. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and coded for the type and accuracy of information reported. Across all age groups, relative to the control condition, all three visual aids increased the amount of new information reported during the second free-recall account and helped participants to maintain accuracy. All three visual aids therefore had a positive effect on participants' performance; in a forensic setting, however, witnesses' own sketch plans are likely to be the safest, most easily applied and most time effective.Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: | Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
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| Abstract: | We compared the effects of three types of visual aid on free recall across three age groups in an eyewitness paradigm. Child, adolescent and adult participants (N = 144) viewed a short film depicting a non-violent crime and, following a brief delay, gave a free-recall account. Participants then described the event once again, with the aid of their own sketch plan, a provided sketch plan or photograph, or with no visual aid. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and coded for the type and accuracy of information reported. Across all age groups, relative to the control condition, all three visual aids increased the amount of new information reported during the second free-recall account and helped participants to maintain accuracy. All three visual aids therefore had a positive effect on participants' performance; in a forensic setting, however, witnesses' own sketch plans are likely to be the safest, most easily applied and most time effective.Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 08884080 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/acp.3156 |
