Drawings as memory aids: Optimising the drawing method to facilitate young children's recall

Barlow, Claire M.; Jolley, Richard P.; Hallam, Jenny

doi:10.1002/acp.1716

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“…For example, studies have shown that besides only instructing children to draw, an even more superior way to facilitate the reporting of information is to include an interactive draw and tell group in which children had to draw and tell what happened in interaction with the interviewer (e.g., Barlow et al 2011). Furthermore, the drawing superiority effect has been confirmed when 1) children witnessed emotionally-negative events (Gross and Hayne 1999;Wesson and Salmon 2001), 2) when children were interviewed after a long delay (e.g., 1 year; Gross and Hayne 1999), 3) when children were tested of varying ages (i.e., 5-to 12-year-olds; Patterson and Hayne 2011), and 4) when children had an alleged history of sexual abuse (Katz and Hershkowitz 2010).…”

Section: Drawing Children's Memoriesmentioning

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Improving Children’s Interviewing Methods? The Effects of Drawing and Practice on Children’s Memories for an Event

Otgaar

Ansem

Pauw

et al. 2016

J Police Crim Psych

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In the present experiment, we were interested in the effects of drawings and practice on children's memory performance. Younger (6/7-year-olds; n = 37) and older (11/12-yearolds; n = 44) children were presented with two videos that differed in complexity. Half of the children had to practice recalling an experienced event (i.e., last holiday) before remembering the two videos. The other half was not presented with such practice. Then, all children had to tell what they could still recollect about the first video. For the second video, all children were allowed to draw and tell during the recollection of the event. As expected, we found that for the complex video, making a drawing increased the completeness of children's statements, but also reduced the accuracy of their statements. Although we found that including practice reduced the completeness of statements, it did not negatively impact the accuracy of children's memory reports. Taken together, our results imply that interviewers should be cautious in using drawings as an interviewing method as it might elevate the production of incorrect information.

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Section: Drawing Children's Memoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improving Children’s Interviewing Methods? The Effects of Drawing and Practice on Children’s Memories for an Event

Otgaar

Ansem

Pauw

et al. 2016

J Police Crim Psych

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“…Rather, the technique implicitly encourages mental time travel by supporting an effortful search for salient, self-generated contextual cues, which can immediately be externalised, but which remain available in the form of a visual record. As such, drawing can increase access to memory stores (Barlow, Jolley & Hallam, 2011), with reduced risk of memory contamination (Strange, Garry & Sutherland, 2003).…”

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Drawing the answers: Sketching to support free and probed recall by child witnesses and victims with autism spectrum disorder

Mattison

Dando

Ormerod

2016

Autism

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The success of witness interviews in the criminal justice system depends on the accuracy of information obtained, which is a function of both amount and quality of information. Attempts to enhance witness retrieval such as mental reinstatement of context have been designed with typically developed adults in mind. In this paper, the relative benefits of mental and sketch reinstatement mnemonics are explored with both typically developing children and children with autism. Children watched a crime event video, and their retrieval of event information was examined in free and probed recall phases of a cognitive interview. As expected, typically developing children recalled more correct information of all types than children with autism during free and probed recall phases.Sketching during free recall was more beneficial for both groups in both phases in reducing the amount of incorrect items, but the relative effect of sketching on enhancing retrieval accuracy was greater for children with autism. The results indicate the benefits of choosing retrieval mnemonics that are sensitive to the specific impairments of autistic individuals, and suggest that retrieval accuracy during interviews can be enhanced, in some cases to the same level as that of typically developing individuals.

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“…Following each student's presentation, we drew on cues present in his/her drawing and employed interactive questioning in order to obtain a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of the student's drawing. This process of combining a drawing activity and interactive questioning has been found to facilitate children's recall (Barlow et al 2011). All student presentations and responses to our inquiries were audiorecorded and subsequently transcribed for future comparison and analysis with their actual drawings.…”

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There’s a creepy guy on the other end at Google!: engaging middle school students in a drawing activity to elicit their mental models of Google

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Although youth are increasingly going online to fulfill their needs for information, many youth struggle with information and digital literacy skills, such as the abilities to conduct a search and assess the credibility of online information. Ideally, these skills encompass an accurate and comprehensive understanding of the ways in which a system, such as a Web search engine, functions. In order to investigate youths' conceptions of the Google search engine, a drawing activity was conducted with 26 HackHealth afterschool program participants to elicit their mental models of Google. The findings revealed that many participants personified Google and emphasized anthropomorphic elements, computing equipment, and/or connections (such as cables, satellites and antennas) in their drawings. Far fewer participants focused their drawings on the actual Google interface or on computer code. Overall, their drawings suggest a limited understanding of Google and the ways in which it actually works. However, an understanding of youths' conceptions of Google can enable educators to better tailor their digital literacy instruction efforts and can inform search engine developers and search engine interface designers in making the inner workings of the engine more transparent and their output more trustworthy to young users. With a better understanding of how Google works, young users will be better able to construct effective queries, assess search results, and ultimately find relevant and trustworthy information that will be of use to them.

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Drawings as memory aids: Optimising the drawing method to facilitate young children's recall

Cited by 50 publications

References 26 publications

Improving Children’s Interviewing Methods? The Effects of Drawing and Practice on Children’s Memories for an Event

Improving Children’s Interviewing Methods? The Effects of Drawing and Practice on Children’s Memories for an Event

Drawing the answers: Sketching to support free and probed recall by child witnesses and victims with autism spectrum disorder

There’s a creepy guy on the other end at Google!: engaging middle school students in a drawing activity to elicit their mental models of Google

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