美国儿童目击证人记忆的研究综述

A Review on Child Eyewitnesses' Memory in the United States

Loftus等人提出了“错误信息效应”以反映误导信息对目击证人报告的影响。心理学家随后提出了关于“错误信息效应”不同的机制,如记忆削弱、迎合期望、源监控混乱等机制。研究表明上述多种机制都可能影响到儿童证人的事件记忆,使该领域的研究达到一个新的阶段。

Loftus et al. put forward the term ＂misinformation effect＂ to demonstrate that eyewitness report can be affected by post - event misinformation, Later psychologists suggest multiple mechanisms of ＂misinformation effect＂ including memory impairment, demand characteristics and sourcemonitoring confusions. The research results show that those factors mentioned above may influence children witnesses＇ memory of event, whieh advances the research in this field to a new stage.