Dr. Carole Peterson

Biography

Carole Peterson is a Research Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland specializing in developmental psychology, with a significant focus on children's eyewitness memory and the mechanisms influencing memory recall. Her research investigates how children provide information during open-ended interviews and the implications of interviewer suggestions on their responses. She utilizes innovative techniques, such as the Narrative Elaboration procedure, to better understand how children remember salient life events. Peterson's interests also extend to childhood amnesia, examining adults’ ability to recall their earliest memories and the factors affecting memory retrieval. Over the years, she has published extensively on topics related to memory, including the emotional aspects of childhood memory and cross-linguistic studies of memory recall. Her work contributes significantly to the field and aims to inform practices in psychological research and child testimonial reliability.

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