PSYCH 2300 2

This is a summary of the study A Moral Developmental Perspective on Children’s Eyewitness Identification: Does Intent Matter? (2015). I summarize the hypothesis, research modalities, and main conclusions in the paper. The study is about how children at different ages react to a situation where a perpetrator causes harm and whether the children identify the suspect. This relates to the child's moral reasoning ability rather than simply relying on memory. The assignment was completed for the ...