Setting realistic expectations: developmental characteristics, capacities and limitations

Michael E. Lamb; Lindsay C. Malloy; David J. La Rooy

doi:10.1002/9781119998495.ch2

Setting realistic expectations: developmental characteristics, capacities and limitations

Michael E. Lamb, Lindsay C. Malloy, David J. La Rooy

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Children's testimony
Subtitle of host publication	a handbook of psychological research and forensic practice
Editors	Michael E. Lamb, David J. La Rooy, Lindsay C. Malloy, Carmit Katz
Place of Publication	Chichester
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Pages	15-48
Number of pages	34
Edition	2nd
ISBN (Electronic)	9781119998495
ISBN (Print)	9780470686782, 9780470686775
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119998495.ch2
Publication status	Published - Jun 2011

Publication series

Name	Wiley Series in the Psychology of Crime, Policing and Law
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell

Keywords

Child witnesses
Interviewing in law practice
Setting realistic expectations - capacities and limitations
Children, sources of information - as victims or witnesses
Information reliability, and children - children's developmental level
Children's testimony - affected by communicative abilities
Accuracy of children's accounts - linguistic style and language complexity
Children's comprehension-monitoring skills - and misunderstandings
Child witnesses - multi-victim sexual abuse in child care centres
Kelly Michaels case, and investigative interviewers - children's sensitivity
Suggestibility, multiply determined - cognitive, social, motivational variables
Marked individual differences - accuracy of information recalled

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10.1002/9781119998495.ch2

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Lamb, M. E., Malloy, L. C., & La Rooy, D. J. (2011). Setting realistic expectations: developmental characteristics, capacities and limitations. In M. E. Lamb, D. J. La Rooy, L. C. Malloy, & C. Katz (Eds.), Children's testimony: a handbook of psychological research and forensic practice (2nd ed., pp. 15-48). (Wiley Series in the Psychology of Crime, Policing and Law). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119998495.ch2

Lamb, Michael E. ; Malloy, Lindsay C. ; La Rooy, David J. / Setting realistic expectations : developmental characteristics, capacities and limitations. Children's testimony: a handbook of psychological research and forensic practice. editor / Michael E. Lamb ; David J. La Rooy ; Lindsay C. Malloy ; Carmit Katz. 2nd. ed. Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. pp. 15-48 (Wiley Series in the Psychology of Crime, Policing and Law).

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Lamb, ME, Malloy, LC & La Rooy, DJ 2011, Setting realistic expectations: developmental characteristics, capacities and limitations. in ME Lamb, DJ La Rooy, LC Malloy & C Katz (eds), Children's testimony: a handbook of psychological research and forensic practice. 2nd edn, Wiley Series in the Psychology of Crime, Policing and Law, Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, pp. 15-48. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119998495.ch2

Setting realistic expectations : developmental characteristics, capacities and limitations. / Lamb, Michael E.; Malloy, Lindsay C.; La Rooy, David J.

Children's testimony: a handbook of psychological research and forensic practice. ed. / Michael E. Lamb; David J. La Rooy; Lindsay C. Malloy; Carmit Katz. 2nd. ed. Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. p. 15-48 (Wiley Series in the Psychology of Crime, Policing and Law).

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Lamb ME, Malloy LC, La Rooy DJ. Setting realistic expectations: developmental characteristics, capacities and limitations. In Lamb ME, La Rooy DJ, Malloy LC, Katz C, editors, Children's testimony: a handbook of psychological research and forensic practice. 2nd ed. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. 2011. p. 15-48. (Wiley Series in the Psychology of Crime, Policing and Law). doi: 10.1002/9781119998495.ch2