accuracy of EWT- cog interview✅

Question 1

cognitive interview:

which 2 introduced this and what do they believe?

Answer 1

fisher and geiselman - EWT could be improved if the police use techniques based on psychological sunlights into how memory works

Question 2

4 key components?

Answer 2

1- report everything
2- reinstate the context
3- reverse the order
4- change the perspective

Question 3

1- report everything:

why are ppts encouraged to report everything?

Answer 3

so every detail is included and an accurate picture can be built of what happened. even report the things they don’t feel confident on to think is irrelevant

by doing so other memories may be recalled

Question 4

2- reinstate context:

why is it important to reinstate context?

what idea is suit based off? (cues)

Answer 4

the witness may recall more info when hey return to the crime scene in their mind … imaging the environment and emotion they felt

context depend forgetting … the cues may trigger recall

Question 5

3- reverse order

why is it good to reverse the order?

Answer 5

prevents dishonesty but also prevents ppl using there expectations of how events must have happened rather then how they actually happened

Question 6

4- change perspective:

why is it good to change perspective?

Answer 6

witnesses recall from the perspective of the perpertater. this prevents the influence of expectations and schema on recall. scheme is packages of info developed through experience which genres a framework for interpreting incoming info.

Question 7

ao3- cognitive interview:

✅3 strengths

❌ 2 weaknesses

Answer 7

✅some elements of CI are useful for police investigations … real life application …

✅ The cognitive interview is useful when interviewing older witnesses. Wright and Holliday (2007) found that the older the participant, the less complete and accurate the recall but when they used the CI technique, the older participants recalled significantly greater detail without giving any false information. Therefore, the CI can be used to ensure that all eyewitness testimony is as accurate as possible to avoid a possible age bias on recall.

✅meta- analysis by kohnken et al supports the effective of enhanced CI

❌police are reluctant to use CI bc its time consuming compared to trial interviews … It is also time consuming to train police officers to use this method. This means that it is unlikely that the ‘proper’ version of the cognitive interview is used.

❌ CI also increases the likelihood pf inaccurate info being recalled… police need to treat info bright forward by this method with caution … CI requires training and investment so it may not always be available because of limited resources