MEMORY- cognitive interviews

Question 1

what are cognitive interviews

Answer 1

-way of using findings from cognitive psychology to improve how police interviews prompt memories

Question 2

standard vs cognitive interviews (6)

Answer 2

STANDARD
-brief q’s
-closed questions
-interruptions
COGNITIVE
-actively listening
-minimal distractions
-open questions

Question 3

what is the 1st technique (3)

Answer 3

-report everything
-include every detail even if it seems irrelevant
-trivial details may be important+trigger other memories

Question 4

what is the 2nd technique (4)

Answer 4

-reinstate the context
-imagine original crime scene
-imagine environment and emotions
-related to context depends forgetting

Question 5

what is the 3rd technique (4)

Answer 5

-reverse the order
-recall events in different orders
-prevents reporting expectations of how the event happened
-prevents dishonesty- harder to produce untruthful account if order changes

Question 6

what is the 4th technique (4)

Answer 6

-change perspective
-eg. from perpetrator/other witnesses
-disrupts effects of expectations and schema on recall
-the schema you have for a particular setting generates expectations of what would’ve happened. The schema is recalled, not the actual events