Memory: Cognitive interview

Question 1

Cognitive interview

Answer 1

Reinstate the context
Report everything
Reverse order
Change perspective

Question 2

Reinstate the ______

Answer 2

context

Question 3

What does reinstating the context involve?

Answer 3

Mentally recreates the crime scene - imagine environment/emotions
context-dependent + state-dependent cue

Question 4

Report everything

Answer 4

Witnesses encouraged to say every detail, even if seems irrelevant
Could act as a cue

Question 5

Reverse order

Answer 5

Prevents expectations being used, rather than actual events

prevents dishonesty

Question 6

Change perspective

Answer 6

Prevents expectations/scheme being used on recall

Makes it harder to reconstruct a story which makes sense

Question 7

A03 - support for effectiveness of CI

Answer 7

Meta-analysis by Kohnken et al

Question 8

A03 - Kohnken et al findings

Answer 8

Consistently proved CI provides more correct info that the standard police interview
indicated real practical benefits

Question 9

A03 - CI disadvantage

Answer 9

Time consuming therefore police reluctant to use it

Question 10

A03 - kebbel et al

Answer 10

CI needs special training & many forces not able to provide more than a few hours
Unlikely proper version of CI is used