Cognitive Interview Flashcards
What is cognitive interview
A way of improving EWT.it suggested that if you improve the way in which the witness is questioned you can improve the accuracy of EWT making It reliable
Why was the CI developed
It was a technique designed for the use of police interviews that involve witnesses (RWA)
This enhances the retrieval of the event that was witnessed
Who was the key psychologist and what did he find
Key psychologists- Fisher 1987
He studied real interviews by police officials
He found :
Witnesses were bombard with a series of Breuer questions that were directed and close ended
Witnesses were interrupted (interference )
Questions were out of sync with the witnesses own metal representation of the event
What are the 4 components of CI
Context reinstatement
Report everything
Recall from a changed perspective
Recall in reverse
What is context reinstatement
Mentally reinstate context of the target event
Recall the scene ,weather ,what you were thinking and feeling at the same time ,the preceding event
Return to the scene of the crime
What is report everything
Report every detail you can recall even if it seems trivial
Let’s the witness speak
What is recall from a changed perspective
Try to describe the episode as it would have been seen from the different viewpoints ,not just your own
E.g victim,perpetrator ,2nd witness
What is recall in reverse (change the order)
Report the episode in several different temporal orders moving backward and forwards in time
Evaluation of cognitive interviews
P:one strength is CI is the amount of support research
E:evidence for this is that researchers found Pps who were interviewed with “report everything “ and “mental reinstatement “ had a higher significant recall compared to using just one individual component or controlled condition
E:this suggests that CI is an effective technique for increasing the accessibility of stored information therefore it is reliable
