{"id":777,"date":"2013-01-09T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=777"},"modified":"2016-01-01T16:32:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T16:32:44","slug":"if-only-reality-had-offered-such-vivid-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"If only reality had offered such vivid details&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-778\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/130109McNally.jpg\" alt=\"130109McNally\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>Jan. 9, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cOne question that arises from studies on children\u2019s suggestibility is whether they document false memories or merely false reports. Do children really believe that the fictional events happened? Or do they merely say so to please the interviewers?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cConsistent with the false memory interpretation, approximately one-third of the children in these studies continued to insist that particular events had really happened to them even after they were told those events were not real&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cLacking any obvious motivation to lie, these children appeared to have developed false memories, perhaps confusing the products of their repeated attempts to visualize the events with the products of direct experience&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cProfessionals were no better than chance at discriminating false from true reports. The credibility of a child\u2019s account was related to the amount of perceptual detail mentioned in the child\u2019s narrative. The more details, the more professional tended to believe the narrative, regardless of whether it was true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From &#8220;Remembering Trauma&#8221; by Richard J. McNally (2003)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">To better understand how the Little Rascals therapists went so wildly astray, give that last paragraph a second reading. \u201cProfessionals were no better than chance at discriminating false from true reports\u201d \u2013 and they were mesmerized by the \u201cperceptual detail\u201d in those tales of sharks and spaceships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 9, 2013 \u201cOne question that arises from studies on children\u2019s suggestibility is whether they document false memories or merely false reports. Do children really believe that the fictional events happened? Or do they merely say so to please the interviewers? \u201cConsistent with the false memory interpretation, approximately one-third of the children in these studies [&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-777","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\/777","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=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}