The Cognitive Interview

Question 1

Why did Fisher and Geiselman (1992) create the cognitive interview?

Answer 1

• The way police interviews ask certain questions could negatively impact eye witness recall accuracy of crimes
• Police questioning regularly promoted regular jumps between memory moralities, event recall in non-chronological order and leading questions

Question 2

What are the ideas in the enhanced interview and why did Fisher create it?

Answer 2

Ideas:
- Reducing eye witness anxiety
- Get eye witness to speak slowly
- Open-ended questions

Question 3

What are the 4 features of the cognitive interview?

Answer 3

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