Cogitive Interviews

Question 1

Who developed cognitive interview techniques

Answer 1

Fisher and geiselman

Question 2

Main 4 techniques used

Answer 2

• changing the narrative order
• changing perspective
• mentally recreating the context of the original incident
• reporting everything

Question 3

What is changing the narrative order

Answer 3

Asking the witness to recount their experience in a different chronological order

Question 4

What is changing perspective

Answer 4

Asking the witness to describe things from another viewpoint

Question 5

What is mentally recreating the context of the original incident

Answer 5

Ask the witness to remember the environmental context eg weather, feelings at the crime scene

Question 6

What is reporting everything

Answer 6

Ask the witness to recall everything even if it seems to have little relevance or they are not sure about it

Question 7

Other guidelines ad interviewer must follow when interviewing a witness

Answer 7

• interviewer not distracting the witness with unnecessary interruptions/ questions
• witness controlling flow of information
• asking open needed questions
• witness being reminded not to guess and thats its fine to say i don’t know

Question 8

Supporting research

Answer 8

Fisher et al
- found that after training in the use of CI detectives in Florida game up to 47% more info when it’s ring witnesses to real crimes compared with their performance before training
- shows effectiveness of CI

Question 9

Weakness of CI

Answer 9

• Composed of several different strategies, difficult to know whether all or just some of these strategies are responsible for the improvement in accuracy of recall
  -konken et al suggests that there may be tendency’s for CI to increase both correct and incorrect details and encourage confabulation ( making up info that fits with the schema of events)