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THE TESTIMONY OF NORMAL AND MENTALLY DEFECTIVE CHILDREN1

THE TESTIMONY OF NORMAL AND MENTALLY DEFECTIVE CHILDREN1 THE TESTIMONY OF NORMAL AND MENTALLY DEFECTIVE CHILDREN’. BY T. H. PEAR AND STANLEY WYATT. (From the Psychological Laboratory, University OJ Manchester.) I. Introductory. 11. Description of the experiments. Subjects taking part in the experiments. III. IV. I’he children’s testimony. P. Treatment oj the results. VI. The results obtained. A. The narrative.’ B. The interrogatory.’ The categories in detail; items, colours, sizes, duration, sequence. ‘ Reconstruction’ of tJbe event. VIZ. Conclusions. I. INTRODUCTORY. Two important questions in connexion with the psychology of children’s testimony still remain unanswered. They are2 : (1) How far is the testimony of normal children reliable for ordinary purposes ? (2) To what degree, and in what directions, does the testimony of the mentally defective child differ from that of the normal child of the same physical age ? Examples of the disagreement in the answers to these questions may be given here. Babinsky‘ declares that children are the most dangerous 1 Amplified from two papers read before the Sub-section of Psychology at the Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Scjence, Birmingham, September, 1913. a The questions have been formulated by Whipple, I‘ The Psychology of Testimony,” Psychol. Bull. 1911, VIII. 307. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png British Journal of Psychology Wiley

THE TESTIMONY OF NORMAL AND MENTALLY DEFECTIVE CHILDREN1

PEAR, T. H.; WYATT, STANLEY
British Journal of Psychology , Volume 6 (3‐4) – Feb 1, 1914
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THE TESTIMONY OF NORMAL AND MENTALLY DEFECTIVE CHILDREN’. BY T. H. PEAR AND STANLEY WYATT. (From the Psychological Laboratory, University OJ Manchester.) I. Introductory. 11. Description of the experiments. Subjects taking part in the experiments. III. IV. I’he children’s testimony. P. Treatment oj the results. VI. The results obtained. A. The narrative.’ B. The interrogatory.’ The categories in detail; items, colours, sizes, duration, sequence. ‘ Reconstruction’ of tJbe event. VIZ. Conclusions. I. INTRODUCTORY. Two important questions in connexion with the psychology of children’s testimony still remain unanswered. They are2 : (1) How far is the testimony of normal children reliable for ordinary purposes ? (2) To what degree, and in what directions, does the testimony of the mentally defective child differ from that of the normal child of the same physical age ? Examples of the disagreement in the answers to these questions may be given here. Babinsky‘ declares that children are the most dangerous 1 Amplified from two papers read before the Sub-section of Psychology at the Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Scjence, Birmingham, September, 1913. a The questions have been formulated by Whipple, I‘ The Psychology of Testimony,” Psychol. Bull. 1911, VIII. 307.

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