Lesson 9- Improving accuracy of EWT- Cognitive interview (crime)

Question 1

What is a cognitive interview (CI)?

Answer 1

Cognitive interview- Fisher & Geiselman (1992)- ⬆️ accuracy of EWT by providing cues- help retrieval

Question 2

What are the 4 principles of the Cognitive Interview?

Answer 2

1) Context 🌞 /mental 😭 reinstatement
2) Report everything
3) Recall in different order
4) Recall from changed perspective

Question 3

Who develop the criteria for the enhanced cognitive interview and when?

Answer 3

Fisher (1987)

Question 4

What is the criteria for the enhanced cognitive interview?

Answer 4

1) Actively listen 👂
2) Ask open ended Q
3) Pause after each response
4) Avoid interruption
5) Encourage imagery use
6) Adapt to language of 👁 witness (⬆️ comfortable)
7) Avoid judgemental comments
8) Minimise distractions

Question 5

What are the evaluation points for the cognitive interview?

Answer 5

👎- time ⏰ consuming- required ⏰ not always available to interviewer- takes ⏰ to establish rapport with 👁 witness… 👮‍♂‍ May be reluctant to use- prefer standard 👮‍♂‍ interview- quicker
👍- research support- Gieselman et al (1985)- pps shown video of staged crime- pps generated more info & more accurate through CI than standard 👮‍♂‍ interview & hypnosis interview
👎- ⬇️ successful with 👶- Geiselman (1999)- 👶 ⬇️ 6 years old report events ⬇️ accurately with CI- instructions difficult to understand- BUT effective with children 👶 ⬆️ 8 years old
👎- CI requires interviewer to receive lots of training to see results- interviewers who only received 4 hours ✖️ produce much more info than standard interviews