cognitive interview

Question 1

what is the cognitive interview

Answer 1

This is a police technique for interviewing
witnesses to a crime
It encourages them to recreate the original context in
order to increase the accessibility of stored
information.

Question 2

why is it important

Answer 2

Improving effectiveness of questioning witnesses in
police interviews

Question 3

who invented the cognitive interview

Answer 3

Fisher and Geiselman
Reviewed memory literature and found that people are better at remembering things if they are provided with retrieval cues

Question 4

what are the 4 stages of the cognitive interview

Answer 4

PROD

Perspective of someone else
Reinstate the context

Order differently

Detail (report everything)

Question 5

why do we use someone else’s perspective

Answer 5

To stop the effects of schemas on our recall (expectations of what should of happend)

Question 6

why do we reinstate the context

Answer 6

To discourage context dependant forgtting

Question 7

why do we rearrange the order

Answer 7

To prevent people from reporting their expectations of the event

Question 8

why do we detail everything

Answer 8

To trigger other memories

Question 9

what must police also do for an effective cognitive interview

Answer 9

-build a rapport with the witness to reduce anxiety and facillitate recall
-ask open ended questions to reduce the likelihood of leading qquestions