Why do we need special interviewing techniques with children?

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Instructions: 

1). Read the article “Take your Kids to Disneyland and Give them Memories for a Lifetime – for Free!”.  (Link)-  Take Your Kids to Disneyland for Free.docx (16.786 KB)

2). Watch the Tom Lyon video, “Interviewing Children: Getting More with Less” on Youtube: (Link) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7my1T4Ghf7A

Then answer the following questions:

1. Summarize a study (A RESEARCH STUDY) that demonstrates false memories (FALSE MEMORIES).

2. Why do we need special interviewing techniques with children?

3. Why are children’s answer to interviewers inconsistent or incomplete?

4.  What is a tag question?  Are they recommended? Why or why not?

5. What are three things Tom Lyon suggests interviewers avoid?

6.  What are six things Tom Lyon suggests for interviewing children? (Don’t include stuff from #5.)