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  • Chapter 7 - Children’s Reports of Personal Experiences

  • from Part III - Children’s Event Memory
  • Edited by Lynne E. Baker-Ward, North Carolina State University, David F. Bjorklund, Florida Atlantic University, Jennifer L. Coffman, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
  • Book:
    The Development of Children's Memory
    Published online:
    28 May 2021
    Print publication:
    10 June 2021, pp 93-114

  • Summary

    Responding to a controversy regarding young witnesses’ legal testimony in cases of child abuse, Professor Ornstein implemented a program of research designed to inform the assessment of children’s reports of forensically relevant events. This chapter provides an overview of this extensive work. Following a discussion of the extant scientific and societal contexts, we examine the research paradigm that enabled Ornstein and his colleagues to investigate ethically children’s reports of real-world, sometimes stressful experiences under conditions of experimental control. Next, we describe differences in the event reports provided by children between the ages of 3 and 7 as documented in this research, and explore the underlying explanations for these differences. We continue with an examination of the contributions of Ornstein and his colleagues for obtaining and evaluating children’s eyewitness testimony, and discuss some continuing challenges for understanding children’s memory for salient experiences.