The cognitive interview Flashcards
Why was cognitive interview created?
Increasing criticism of policing techniques due to misleading questions.
Closed questions asked — leading questions
Forced choice answers.
Proposed by who (Bella eats this)
Fisher et al 1984
Reinstate context
Report everything
Change perspective
Change the order
Reinstate the context?
Mentally recreate environment they were in before incident.
To make memories accessible through contextual/emotional cues.
Report everything?
Tell police everything and not leave a single detail out even if they think it is insignificant.
Change perspective?
Asked to recall event from another persons point of view.
Change the order?
Witness run through events in a different order
e.g: end to beginning
Why are these steps important?
Cognitive interview aids recall by adding cues
Prevents people from reporting EWT based on their expectations (schema).
What is the enhanced cognitive interview? 🧍🧍♀️🧍♂️
Addition of CI
Focuses more on social dynamics of the situation.
Keeping appropriate amount of eye contact.
Open ended questions.
Making interview process more comfortable.
Evaluation —-> strength
Fisher research.
16 detectives trained to perform different interviews
Conducted a normal police interview then a cognitive interview.
Cognitive police interview had 46% increase in information told to them by PPTs.
90% accuracy rating.
shows that cognitive interview more effective.
–>benefit to society
Evaluation —–> strength
Research support by Kohnken
Meta analysis of 55 studies comparing police interviews with cognitive interviews.
41% increase of accurate information in cognitive interviews
Only 4 studies showed no difference.
Evaluation—–>limitation
Implementing research = takes time
Too time consuming to train all those police officers.
Require special training + resource not available : Kebell + Wagstaff (1997)
CI not been widespread –> proper
quality of information may suffer as well.
Not realistic method
