Cognitive Interview

Question 1

Who researched Cognitive Interview?

Answer 1

Geiselman And Fisher In 1992

Question 2

What are the 4 elements to the cognitive interview?

Answer 2

Recall
Order
Perspective
Environment

Question 3

What does reversing the order do?

Answer 3

Prevents dishonesty and expectations of an event
Disrupts schemas

Question 4

What does changing the perspective do?

Answer 4

Disrupts schemas and expectations

Question 5

What does returning to the environment do ?

Answer 5

Context dependent forgetting - having the same context will improve recall

Question 6

What is the enhanced cognitive interview?

Answer 6

Minimise distractions
Reduce anxiety
Adapt language to suit EW
Avoid judgments and personal comments
Ask EW to speaks slowly

Question 7

Evaluation for Cognitive Interview

Answer 7

(Kebbell and wagstaff in 1996) Time consuming and expensive : to train officers requires money and time
(Milne and Bull in 2002) some element are more valuable: using at least 2 will improve the recall
(Kohnken et al in 1999) meta analysis on 50 studies : enchanted Cognitive interview provided more information than standard interview .