ABSTRACT
Systematic analyses of questions and information sources during testing and interviews should be carried out to reveal possible effects of co-constructive processes. To deal with the Rashomon effect and its possible influence in conversational interaction between adults and children in remembering, it is recommended that each party give an open-ended, "what happened," narrative account prior to the interaction. The child may assume that when the adult refers to unusual events such as adults "peeing" on one another or putting peanut butter on genitalia or wiping "Doo-Doo" on faces that the adult is using indirect strategies for an entry into a pretend frame in which a shared fantasy is to be elaborated on by the child. The use of "anatomically correct" dolls can serve to illustrate differences in assumptions on the part of the adult and child. Adults are likely to assume implicitly that the child thinks of the doll as representative of themselves or another person in the original context.
