Otgaar, Smeets, and Peters (2012) Repeatedly Asked Children Age 7

question 38

Multiple Choice

Otgaar, Smeets, and Peters (2012) repeatedly asked children age 7 to 9 about a true event (their first day of school) and a false event ( a visit to a burn center) .In one condition, the children were given script knowledge about each of these events and in a control condition, they were not given such generalized information.They found that:

• A)children were more likely to have false memories of events other than the visit to the burn center.
• B)giving such information in the form of semantic memory scripts increased the likelihood of false memories.
• C)The younger children were frightened by the story about the burn center.
• D)only the highly suggestible children had false memories based on script knowledge.