Christine M. Ricci and Carole R. Beal want to do research to learn if children’s eyewitness memory might be enhanced if the crime take place in a familiar place like a birthday party or at a parallel unfamiliar event such as a play date. Some researchers found there is an increasingly in young children …show more content…
When the child is doing an interviewing techniques that do a reenacting the event, of the child that have a prior knowledge of the event should remember more of the details from the crime episodes.
Christine M. Ricci and Carole R. Beal designed this study to evaluate this hypothesis. In a contrast to other studies, they were doing one that most children will know, without having to remember a script. In a parallel study they have an unfamiliar event, in which the children will have a play date. The play date is all the same as a birthday party with some minor changes. They both have a crime take place during the party, so they can compare the two events of the children’s eyewitnesses’ account of the