An Experiment Of Implanted False Memories On Children Aged 6-8

The early researches about the false memory of children have been focused on thedamage on memory resulted from children's suggestibility to suggestions. Witnessingan accident can arouse emotional reaction which will probably put children undercertain pressures and increase children's suggestibility to suggestions. The higher-levelarousing sometimes may damage children's witness-report .In order to reduce the effectof pressures, the subjects tried to establish harmonious relations to children and used sixbizarre events and six filling events to test children. The results of three age groupssuggest that in comparison with the children without drawing, the children with drawingwas likely to say that the bizarre events really happened. But in the average-testing ofeach of three age groups, it was found that bizarre life events without drawingsincreased in the retest of experimental groups, and the interview techniques not onlyupgrade the number of correct memories, but also increase the error number. Theevent experimental groups comparing paintings lowered the reaction standard of "yes".Among the groups of six year olds and seven year olds , compared with the controlledgroups, children of drawing groups tend to confuse drawn events with happened events.Paintings about events can create a lot of perceptive and semantic details, which arerelated to common life, then activate the imagination of that event, but children who cannot distinguish between the reality and imagination, can not check the source memory.Children aged eight only differ obviously in event 13, which suggests that with theincrease of age, children have more and more experience and knowledge, and graduallyhave the ability to distinguish between the imagination and the reality. The resultsshowed that drawings can lead to more false reports, speaking is actually included.Drawings can prompt the production of imagination, and imaginations can elicit moredetails to do drawings.