Improving Accuracy Of EWT

Question 1

Cognitive interview

Answer 1

Interviewing witness to a crime encouraging them to recreate the original context in order to increase the accessibility of stored information

Question 2

Fisher and geiselman 1992

Answer 2

Reviewed memory literature and related this to the way interviews were carried out by police in real life
People remember things better if provided with cues

Question 3

Fisher and Geiselman CI main components

Answer 3

Reinstatement of context
Report everything
Change order
Change perspective

Question 4

Reinstatement of context

Answer 4

Interviewer and interviewee to mentally recreate both physical and psychological environment from incident
Aim to make memories more accessible

Question 5

Report everything

Answer 5

Interviewer encourages the responding of every detail of the event
Memories connected with one another so the trigger of one memory could trigger others

Question 6

Change order

Answer 6

Interviewer may alternate ways of recalling the incident

Recalling on event backwards prevents pre existing scheme influencing what you recall

Question 7

Change perspective

Answer 7

Interviewer asks interviewer to recall incident from multiple perspective
Disrupts scheme allowing you to be able to recall it better

Question 8

3 forms of evaluation for cognitive interview

Answer 8

Consider the effectiveness
Discuss practical issue of using this technique
Assess their value in real life situations

Question 9

Strengths

Answer 9

Research support
-meta analysis of 53 studies, increase of 34% in amount of correct info generated in the CI compared to standard techniques
Practical benefits

Question 10

Weakness

Answer 10

Know they’re being observed
Lacks ecological validity
Doesn’t represent whole population only select group of students

Takes longer to complete
Requires specialised training

Question 11

Meta analysis

Answer 11

Looking at other studies to create a joint conclusion