Data Bases • Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism? Links • Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com Free Essays • Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • My Term Papers • Get Free Essays • Essay World • Planet Papers	Search Lots of Essays Back to Subjects - Psychology Relability of Childrens Eyewitness Testimony Relability of Childrens Eyewitness Testimony The situation that I have thought of is, when I was on the jury for juveniles who committed first offenses. While I was listening to the lawyers depend these kids, I looked on the list and saw a familiar name. The name was a person I went to kindergarten with. She was being convicted of shoplifting. I could not believe it. All the thoughts of that soft, kind-hearted person went out the window. My behaviors were changed by the environmental influences. My thoughts were overcome with coldness. I felt that she choose her situation. Somewhere along she became part of the wrong crowd and never changed her situation. I also think that the situation changed what I thought of her. The reliability of children’s eyewitness testimony is a controversial issue. Opinions range from proponents believing that children are virtuous in every detail to those who are more skeptical. In actuality, child testimony falls somewhere in between the two divergent views. Though children may not intend to intentionally distort the truth, they do seem to be very vulnerable to suggestibility. Therefore, certain comments and the form of questions can influence testimonials. The aim of the research experiment is to explore the conditions under which unbiased leading questions would influence a child’s memory performance. If young children are asked unbiased leading questions, then their memory performance is going to alter the correct answer. The independent variable is age. Age is an important indicator of how children will view their environment. Age is often inextricably associated with available strategies which children may use to aid in their memory performance. The dependent variable is the number of correct answers. Hence, understanding the children’s limitations will help to understand their version of the truth. A sample of children ranging from 4 to 13 years old are going to be asked to watch a Rainbow Brite video. The children will be randomly picked from a childcare center. To ensure that the children are going to be randomly assigned, the children will range in different age groups. The first group will consist of 4, 6, and 8 year olds. The second group will consist of 10,12, and 14 year olds. It would have to be a field experiment because you have to go out and collect the data. The method of asking questions is going to be fairly easy. The children are not going to be manipulated or any type of deception is going to be used. A Rainbow Brite video is chosen, which lasts 15 minutes. This video is picked because it is not shown on television. Many children know or memorize lines from popular television shows and know what is going to be next. There is going to be six specific questions asked to the children after the video. The questions are: 1.) What color was the horse in the beginning? 2.) What color was Rainbow Brite’s horse? 3.) What does Morty call the brown character? 4.) What color was the fuzzy thing that fell into the water? These questions are to help with the understanding of the children’s memory. The hypothesis was proven by the first group, then it could be true those young children have strong memory when recalling information. This conclusion could make court testimonies accurate and society would not have such controversial issues against the young testifying in court. Bibliography: Word Count: 588
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