Improving accuracy of EWT : The cognitive interview

Question 1

Cognitive Interview

Answer 1

This is a police technique for interviewing
witnesses to a crime
It encourages them to recreate the original context in
order to increase the accessibility of stored
information.

Question 2

Why is it important?

Answer 2

Improving effectiveness of questioning witnesses in
police interviews

Question 3

Who made the cognitive interview

Answer 3

Fisher and Geiselman
Reviewed memory literature and found that people are better at remembering things if they are provided with retrieval cues

Question 4

What are the 4 stages of the cognitive interview

Answer 4

PROD
Perspective of someone else
Reinstate the context
Order differently
Detail (report everything)

Question 5

Why do you use the perspective of someone else

Answer 5

To stop the effects of schemas on our recall (expectations of what should of happend)

Question 6

Why do you reinstate the context

Answer 6

To discourage context dependant forgtting

Question 7

Why do you order the events differently

Answer 7

To prevent people from reporting their expectations of the event

Question 8

Why do you detail / report everything

Answer 8

To trigger other memories

Question 9

What must police also do in the cognitive interview

Answer 9

-build a rapport with the witness to reduce anxiety and facillitate recall
-ask open ended questions to reduce the likelihood of leading qquestions

Question 10

AO3 pos

Answer 10

Supporting evidence from Geiselman
Ppts viewd a violent crime and were interviewed 48h later using either CI, a standard interview or hypnosis
Correctly recalled facts = CI 41 hypnosis 38 standard 29

Question 11

AO3 neg

Answer 11

It takes a large amount of time anf resources to train someone to do the cognitive interview
It may not be appropriate at all times and there often arent the resources for it
There are slef reviews and onine versions though
This helps reduce time between the event and recall and rduces PED