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Repeated
Interviews:
Memory Distortion and Learned Behavior |
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| What
is
the affect of being interviewed
time
and time again about having been sexually abused? The additional information which seeps
out
during
repeated interviews can distort the memory, so that the child's
recollection
of the event is no longer a valid one. Once having muddied those
waters, the child's recollection can never return to normal.
Once the memory is distorted, the greatest expert in the country can't retrieve it. One has to expect that you're never going to find out the details surrounding the suspected abuse. A second thing that begins to
happen
as
the child
is being questioned by adults is the child is learning to say the
things
that those adults are looking for . . . things which may have nothing
to
do with the truth. |
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