the cognitive interview

Question 1

define cognitive interview?

Answer 1

A police technique for interviewing witnesses of a crime, which encourages them to create the original context of the crime into order to increases accessibility to stored memories.

Question 2

who came up with the interview?

Answer 2

Geiselman et al (1984)

Question 3

name the 4 components

Answer 3

mental reinstatement of original context
report everything
change the order
changing perspective

Question 4

explain reinstatement of original context

Answer 4

interveiwer encourages interviewee to mentally recreate the original both the physical and psychological environment of the original incident in order to make memories more accessible as this gives appropriate contextual and emotional cues to retrieve the memories

Question 4

explain report everything

Answer 4

interveiwer encourages interveiwee to disclose every detail of the event , even if they think it is irrelavent
memories are interconnected to one and other so that recollection of one item may then cue other memories

Question 5

explain change order

Answer 5

try alternative ways through the timeline of an incident
recolleciltion is influenced by schema
if you start from the end ,it prevents existing schema influencing what you recall

Question 6

explainin changing perspective

Answer 6

interveiwee is asked to recall the incident from multiple perspectives
disrupt the effect schema have on recall

Question 7

who came up with the standard police interveiw?

Answer 7

Fisher and Geiselman(1992)

Question 8

explain the standard police interview?

Answer 8

interveiwer does most of talking
asked leading and forced questions
questions often predetmined by a writtern checklist
wittness discouraged from adding extra infro

Question 9

what is wrong with the standard police interveiw?

Answer 9

increases inaccurate info -> more inaccurate conviction
memory retrieval ineffective