Editing Suggestibility (section)

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*'''Age:''' Children have a remarkable ability to remember events in their lives. The real variability between ages in suggestibility is the amount of detail provided for an event. Memory detail will be great for older children. Some younger children may need help recalling past events with the help of an adult.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Eisen ML, Goodman GS | title = Trauma, memory, and suggestibility in children | journal = Development and Psychopathology | volume = 10 | issue = 4 | pages = 717–38 | date = December 1998 | pmid = 9886223 | doi = 10.1017/S0954579498001837 | s2cid = 28144789 }}</ref> The problem as it relates to suggestibility is when children, and even adults, blend previous knowledge of similar experiences into their recollection of a single event. Children, particularly younger children, are prone to including details that are similar yet unrelated to the specific event showing that the age of a person is critical in their susceptibility to influence.
*'''Prior knowledge:''' As mentioned before, the possession of prior knowledge that relates to an event can be particularly dangerous when dealing with child suggestibility. Prior knowledge, as it relates to suggestibility is the use of past experiences to help reconstruct past or current events. Prior knowledge of an event can actually be effective at producing accurate recall of a particular situation, but can also be equally as effective at producing false memories. Research showed that when presented with a previously familiar situation, children were likely to falsely recall events as if they had happened.
*'''Gist extraction:''' Although children are extremely likely to recall [[False memory|false memories]] when past events are similar to a current event, they will also recall false memory details that are seemingly unrelated to the event. Researchers named this phenomenon global gist, which is a representation that identifies connections across multiple events. Children will falsely recall information that fits with their representation of the events around them.