Memory: cognitive interview

Question 1

Who founded the cognitive interview?

Answer 1

Fisher and Geislman (1992)

Question 2

What did Fisher and Geislman aim to do?

Answer 2

.they aimed to improve the standard police interview by using psychological insights.

Question 3

What does the cognitive interview consist of?

Answer 3

C.O.P.E

Question 4

What does the C of C.O.P.E stand for?

Answer 4

-context:
.witnesses encourage to return to crime scene in their mind and imagine the environment and how they felt.

Question 5

What does the C of C.O.P.E reduce?

Answer 5

.reduces context-dependent forgetting.

Question 6

What does the O of C.O.P.E mean?

Answer 6

-order:
.asked witnesses to recall event in reverse order.

Question 7

What does the O of C.O.P.E prevent?

Answer 7

.prevents expectations and makes being dishonest harder.

Question 8

What does the P of C.O.P.E mean?

Answer 8

-perspective:
.witnesses asked to recall events in perspective of another witness.

Question 9

What does the P in C.O.P.E prevents?

Answer 9

.prevents influence of schema.

Question 10

What does the E in C.O.P.E mean?

Answer 10

-everything:
.witnesses asked to recall the entire event and every detail wether they think it’s insignificant.

Question 11

What are some strengths to a cognitive interview?

Answer 11

-Kohnken et al (199):
.meta-analysis of 50 studies showed cognitive interviews consistently provided more accurate information than the standard police interview by 34%.

Question 12

What are some negatives to a cognitive interview?

Answer 12

-Kohnken et al (1999):
.found an increase of 81% in accurate information BUT an increase of 61% in inaccurate information when using a cognitive interview.