Improving Accuracy of Eyewitness testimony Flashcards
1
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How do you improve eyewitness testimony
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Cognitive interview
2
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Outline the Cognitive Interview:
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- Recall Everything
- Reinstate the Context
- Reserve order
- Change perspective
3
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Outline the Cognitive Interview:
1. Recall Everything
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Small details may be important and they may trigger other details
Cues
4
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Outline the Cognitive Interview:
2. Reinstate Context
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Return to crime scene in mind
Related to context-dependent forgetting
5
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Outline the Cognitive Interview:
3. Reverse order
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Harder to lie
Reduces people reporting what they expect
6
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Outline the Cognitive Interview:
4. Change Perspective
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Disrupts natural schemas
7
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What does the enhanced Cognitive interview aim to do
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- Reduce anxiety
- Minimise distractions
- Get witness to speak slowly
- Ask open ended questions
8
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Evaluate The cognitive interview
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- Time consuming
+ Effective
