{"id":491,"date":"2012-05-04T16:14:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T16:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=491"},"modified":"2015-12-30T16:20:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T16:20:17","slug":"leading-questions-not-spontaneity-marked-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"Leading questions, not spontaneity, marked interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-308\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/111228Ceci.jpg\" alt=\"111228Ceci\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>May 4, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cWritten reports that contain statements such as \u2018The child said that Mr. Bob told them secrets\u2019 are meaningless.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cWe need to know whether this was a spontaneous remark, whether this was prompted by an open-ended question (e.g., \u201cWhat did Mr. Bob tell you?\u201d), or whether this is merely the interviewer\u2019s memory of the gist of a conversation in which the interviewer asked, \u2018Did Mr. Bob ask you to keep secrets?\u2019 and the child reluctantly may have replied, \u2018Yes.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cSome summaries of the interviews are written in such a way as to make one believe that children made spontaneous and detailed statements about sexual abuse. However in the few instances where we have transcripts of other interviews, it is clear that the child only responded \u2018yes\u2019 or \u2018no\u2019 to a barrage of leading questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201cJeopardy in the Courtroom: A Scientific Analysis of Children\u2019s<br \/>\nTestimony\u201d by Stephen J. Ceci and Maggie Bruck (1995)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 4, 2012 \u201cWritten reports that contain statements such as \u2018The child said that Mr. Bob told them secrets\u2019 are meaningless. \u201cWe need to know whether this was a spontaneous remark, whether this was prompted by an open-ended question (e.g., \u201cWhat did Mr. Bob tell you?\u201d), or whether this is merely the interviewer\u2019s memory of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}