![]() ![]() I had been listening to children for a long time, and I simply was looking at the structure and how they learned to tell stories. What led you to think differently about doing research that would interrogate that? Here is part of that conversation.Īs you say, people didn't believe children you can't trust what kids say. Peterson reflected on her work and its implications with The Current's Matt Galloway. Peterson's research has explored how far back we remember by interviewing children and their parents. Over the years, she has developed new methodologies and introduced three new areas of child psychology: narrative ability, eyewitness memory and early childhood amnesia. ![]() Her work has made the case for eyewitnesses as young as three-years-old. The commonly held assumption has been that children's memories are not credible enough to be used as evidence in courts.īut the Memorial University professor's research has had a significant impact, according to the Royal Society of Canada, of which she is a fellow. The Current 23:26 Why children’s memories are more accurate than you might thinkįor 50 years, Newfoundland psychologist Carole Peterson has been listening to children tell their life stories and helping us learn not only how early we can remember things, but how reliable children's memories are. ![]()
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