Research Article Representational Constraints on Children's Suggestibility

• Published in: Psychological science Vol. 18; no. 6; p. 503
• Main Authors: Ceci, Stephen J, Papierno, Paul B, Kulkofsky, Sarah
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Thousand Oaks SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC 01.06.2007
• Subjects: Child psychology; Developmental psychology

In a multistage experiment, twelve 4- and 9-year-old children participated in a triad rating task. Their ratings were mapped with multidimensional scaling, from which euclidean distances were computed to operationalize semantic distance between items in target pairs. These children and age-mates the...