improving the accuracy of EWT: cognitive interview

Question 1

What is cognitive interview?

Answer 1

A method of interviewing eyewitnesses to help them retrieve more accurate memories

Question 2

What are the 4 techniques?

Answer 2

• Report everything
• Reinstate the context
• Reverse the order
• Change perspective

Question 3

Report everything

Answer 3

-witnesses are encouraged to include every single detail of the event»even though it may seem irrelevant or the witness does not feel confident about it

Question 4

Reinstate the context?

Answer 4

witnesses should return to the original crime scene ‘in their mind
ppl often cannot access memories that are there»they need appropriate contextual and emotional cues to retrieve memories

Question 5

Reverse the order?

Answer 5

evets should be recalled in a different chronological order to the original sequence
*this is done to prevent the people reporting their expectations of how the event must have happened rather than the actual events

Question 6

Change Perspective?

Answer 6

witnesses should recall the incident from other peoples perspectives
*this is done to disrupt the effect of expectations and schema on recall.