cognitive interview Flashcards
Who invented the CI?
Fisher and Geiselman
Four stages of CI?
Report everything
Reinstate context
Reverse order
Change perspective
Describe report everything
Every detail
Triggers other memories
Describe reinstate the context
Imagine environment
Related to context dependent forgetting
Describe reverse the order
Recall in reverse order
Prevents people reporting expectations of event
Prevents dishonesty
Describe change perspective
Recall from another perspective
Disrupts effect of schema
Who created the enhanced CI?
Fisher
What is the enhanced CI?
Additional elements that focus on social dynamics
Eye contact
Anxiety
Distractions
Evaluation - CI is time consuming
More time than standard police interview
Establish rapport with witnesses
Requires special training
Evaluation - some elements more valuable than others
Milne and Bull - each element valuable
More info than SPI
Combo of report everything and reinstate context produced better recall
Full CI doesn’t need to be used
Evaluation - support for effectiveness of ECI
Kohnken meta analysis combined data from 50 studies
ECI provided more correct info than SPI
Beneficial
Evaluation - variations of CI
Studies use different techniques
Flexibility is a good thing
Adapted to different circumstances
Evaluation - CI creates increase in inaccuracy
Increases amount of incorrect info recalled
Kohnken - 81% increase in correct
61% increase in incorrect
Not abandon it but improve
