Cognitive interview

Question 1

What is cognitive interview?

Answer 1

Methods used to help eyewitnesses retrieve accurate memories

Question 2

Who came up with cognitive interview?

Answer 2

Fisher and Gieselman (1992)

Question 3

What are the 4 main techniques involved in cognitive interview?

Answer 3

Report everything
Reinstate the context
Change perspective
Reverse the order

Question 4

What is enhanced cognitive interview?

Answer 4

a more developed form to help improve EWT further

Question 5

What are the features of ECI?

Answer 5

Establishing and maintaining eye contact 
Reducing anxiety 
Minimising distractions 
getting witnesses to speak slower 
open ended Q's

Question 6

What are limitations of the cognitive interview in comparison with the normal police interview?

Answer 6

It is more time consuming

It requires special training

Question 7

What are limitations of the cognitive interview components?

Answer 7

Some are more valuable than others

Question 8

What did Milne and Bull find? (2002)

Answer 8

Each independent element equally volatile

Each technique used singly produced more information than the SI

Question 9

What combination of CI components produced the best results?

Answer 9

Report everything and reinstate context

Question 10

What did Kohnken find? (1999)

Answer 10

Combined data from 50 studies and found that ECI information was correct more than SPI
The real practical benefits of using ECI as the police have a greater chance of catching criminals and this benefits society as a whole

Question 11

What did Kohnken find in relation to CI increasing incorrect information?

Answer 11

81% increase of correct information

61% chance of incorrect information when using enhanced cognitive interview