Contrasting the Efficacy of the Content Analysis Categories of the Global Evaluation System to Discern Between Experienced Memories and Video Observed Memories

• Published in: Revista iberoamericana de psicología y salud Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 55 - 67
• Main Authors: Sanmarco, Jéssica, Selaya, Adriana, Marcos, Verónica, Montes, Álvaro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Spanish; English
• Published: A Coruna Ramón González Cabanach 01.07.2023
• Subjects: Content analysis; Credibility; Memory; Testimony; Validity; Witnesses
• ISSN: 2171-2069; 1989-9246
• DOI: 10.23923/j.rips.2023.02.066

Results: The results exhibited that the statements of viewed events were not sufficient and valid evidence in 60% of cases. [...]the results showed that the content categories were significantly productive in experienced memories and discriminated between experienced and non-experienced memories. For the development of the categorical system, it was followed the guidelines for the construction of a methodic system: mutual exclusion (control of duplication of measures), homogeneity (internal consistency), objectivity (empirical and exhaustive definition of the categories and the unit of analysis), adequacy or relevance (valid for the classification of memories of self-experienced events), completeness (concretion of new categories through a procedure by successive approximations), fidelity (creation of a coding manual for the training of coders to ensure faithful coding of categories) and productivity (categories are productively in self-experienced event memories) (Arce, 2017; Bardin, 1996). [...]this technique involves the use of the cognitive interview (Geiselman et al., 1984), or an adapted version if the witness has a handicap (Arce & Fariña, 2012). [...]an analysis of the consistency in the time of the testimony can be carried out.