To investigate the suggestibility of children’s memory, Ceci, Ross, and Toglia (1987) presented 3- to 12-year-old children with a story of a girl who got a stomach ache after eating eggs. They then presented the children with either false biasing information or with no biasing information. They found that:   a. the difference in correct remembering the story details after receiving biasing information versus not receiving biasing information disappeared by 7 years of age. b. there was no effect of biasing information at any age. c. the detrimental effect on correct remembering by biasing information increased with age. d. across all ages, children correctly remembered less details of the story after receiving biasing information that when not.

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To investigate the suggestibility of children’s memory, Ceci, Ross, and Toglia (1987) presented 3- to 12-year-old children with a story of a girl who got a stomach ache after eating eggs. They then presented the children with either false biasing information or with no biasing information. They found that:

 

a.

the difference in correct remembering the story details after receiving biasing information versus not receiving biasing information disappeared by 7 years of age.

b.

there was no effect of biasing information at any age.

c.

the detrimental effect on correct remembering by biasing information increased with age.

d.

across all ages, children correctly remembered less details of the story after receiving biasing information that when not.

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