Improving accuracy of EWT

Question 1

What is a cognitive interview

Answer 1

Encourages witnesses to a crime which encourages them to recreate the original context of the crime in order to increase accessibility of stored information
Memory is made up of associations rather than discrete events and accessed by multiple retrieval methods

Question 2

What are the 4 techniques of cognitive interviews

Answer 2

Report everything
Reinstatement of context
Change order
Change perspective

Question 3

What is report everything

Answer 3

Witnesses are encouraged to include every single detail of the event even if it may seen irrelevant it may trigger important memories

Question 4

What is reinstatement of context

Answer 4

Returning to crime scene or imagine being back there at the scene

Question 5

What is change order

Answer 5

Recall events of the crime in a different order
This will remove the expectations and gap filling of a story told in order that should make sense and flow

Question 6

What is change perspective

Answer 6

Recall the incident from someone else’s perspective at the scene of the crime
It disrupts personal scheme

Question 7

What are the differences of police vs cognitive interview

Answer 7

Police is direct to quickly gather info And less accurate
Cognitive uses prompts to maximise memory recall

Question 8

What is the fisher and geiselmans experiment

Answer 8

16 police interviewers conducted 2 interviews on 47 witnesses of shoplifting
First interviews were police interviews
Group 1 was given another police interview and group2 were then given a cognitive interviews Group
They measured the increase in facts between the 2 interviews

Question 9

What were the findings of the fisher and geiselmans experiment

Answer 9

Supports cognitive interviews
Cognitive interviews obtained 47% more facts about the crime compared to no increase in the second interview if it was another police interview