cognitive interiew

Question 1

what is the cognitive interview

Answer 1

a police technique for interviewing witnesses of a crime, which increases them to recreate the original context in order to increase the accessibility of stored information

Question 2

why is the cognitive interview important

Answer 2

it improves eyewitness of questioning witnesses in police interviews and applies findings of psychological findings to this area

Question 3

what did Fisher and Geiselman (1992) study

Answer 3

reviewed memory literature- people remember things better if they are provided with retrieval cues

Question 4

what are the four steps to the cognitive interview

Answer 4

-report everything
-reinstatement of context
-change order
-change perspective

Question 5

reporting everything

Answer 5

witnesses are asked to report every detail, this way unimportant details could act as retrieval cues for key information about the event

Question 6

reinstating context

Answer 6

the interviewer tries to mentally reinstate the environmental and personal context of the crime for the witness e.g general activities, the weather, sights, sounds

Question 7

why is changing the event in order important

Answer 7

it allows the witness to produce an event in how we expect it to happen rather in the way it actually occurred, changing/ reversing the order is encouraged to help recall as much as possible