Otgaar, Smeets, and Peters (2012) Repeatedly Asked Children Age 7

Multiple Choice

Otgaar, Smeets, and Peters (2012) repeatedly asked children age 7 to 9 about a true event (their first day of school) and a false event ( a visit to a burn center) .In one condition, the children were given script knowledge about each of these events and in a control condition, they were not given such generalized information.They found that:

A) children were more likely to have false memories of events other than the visit to the burn center.
B) giving such information in the form of semantic memory scripts increased the likelihood of false memories.
C) The younger children were frightened by the story about the burn center.
D) only the highly suggestible children had false memories based on script knowledge.