Crime - Topic 3 Other Research

Question 1

Loftus and palmer

Answer 1

Witnesses memory is not always reliable. It can be influenced by leading questions and produce false memories

Question 2

Fischer

Answer 2

There are various problems with the standard interview, as police can interrupt and ask short answer questions which doesn’t gather much detail.

Experienced detectives trained in CIT elicited more information than the control group. The is individual differences in ability.

As CIT is consuming, officers dont often do all the stages.

Question 3

Geiselman

Answer 3

Memory is better with cued or context based recall.

More effective to recall in story order first

Question 4

Grant

Answer 4

Context dependancy can increase memory recall and thus the quality of memory recall

Question 5

Padzek

Answer 5

Pushing the witness is likely to result in false information

Question 6

Dando

Answer 6

Mentally reinstating the context is often poorly applied

Question 7

Milne

Answer 7

Mental reinstatement alone elicits the most information compared to the rest of the CIT stages

Question 8

Kassin

Answer 8

PEACE model should be applied to reduce the number of false confessions.

Video all interviews, do not just record them

Question 9

Inbau

Answer 9

Reids nine steps to interrogation provide structure, however it increases the number of false confessions.

Question 10

Godjohnsson

Answer 10

There are vulnerable groups when it comes to confessions. The young, elderly and mentally ill are susceptible

Three types pf false confession. Voluntary, coerced compliant and coerced internalised.