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Children's metacognitive judgments in an eyewitness identification task.

Amber Keast1, Neil Brewer, Gary L Wells

  • 1School of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia.

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
|May 22, 2007
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Summary

Children

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive psychology
  • Developmental psychology
  • Forensic psychology

Background:

  • Children's eyewitness identifications are crucial in legal proceedings.
  • Assessing the reliability of children's testimony is vital.
  • Metacognitive monitoring, or awareness of one's own cognition, is key to judgment accuracy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate children's metacognitive monitoring in eyewitness identification.
  • To determine if children's confidence in their identifications accurately reflects their accuracy.
  • To compare children's and adults' confidence-accuracy (CA) calibration.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments used a simulated crime eyewitness identification paradigm.
  • Participants (children and adults) made recognition judgments from target-present/absent lineups.

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  • Confidence-accuracy calibration and hypothesis disconfirmation manipulations were employed.

    • Main Results:

    • Adults showed meaningful confidence-accuracy relations, but children did not.
    • Social pressure and hypothesis disconfirmation manipulations had minimal impact on children's CA calibration.
    • Children's confidence in their identifications was not a reliable indicator of accuracy.

    Conclusions:

    • Children's metacognitive monitoring in eyewitness identification is limited compared to adults.
    • Investigative reliance on children's confidence judgments is cautioned.
    • Findings highlight developmental differences in metacognitive monitoring of recognition.