the cognitive interview

Question 1

what is the purpose of the cognitive interview?

Answer 1

to improve he accuracy of EWT in police interviews

Question 2

What are the 2 main forces behind the development of the Ci?

Answer 2

the need to improve the effectiveness of police interviews when questioning witnesses
apply the results of psychological research to this area

Question 3

What are the 4 main principals behind the CI?

Answer 3

report everything
Mental reinstatement of original context
Changing the order
Perspective changing

Question 4

What is one way to remember the RMCP?

Answer 4

Running
Meg
Cooks
Pasta

Question 5

what is report everything?

Answer 5

the interviewer encourages the reporting of every single detail even though it may seem irrelevant

Question 6

what is mental reinstatement of original context?

Answer 6

the interviewer encourages the interviewee to mentally recreate the environment and contacts from the original event

Question 7

what is changing the order?

Answer 7

the interviewer may try alternative ways through the timeline of the incident e.g. reversing the order

Question 8

what is changing perspective?

Answer 8

interviewee is asked to recall the incident from multiple perspectives e.eg other witnesses

Question 9

What did Kohnken et al do?

Answer 9

a meta-analysis of 53 students, he found on average an increase of 34% in the amount of correct information generated in the CI.

Question 10

What si a weakess of Kohnkens experiment?

Answer 10

It was tested on volunteer witnesses so could have been affected by demand characteristics. It was also done as a lab experiment t?

Question 11

Milne and Bull examined what?

Answer 11

the relative effectiveness of each of the 4 componenets

Question 12

What did Milne and Bull do?

Answer 12

Undergraduate students and children were interviewed just using one component of the CI. Compared to a control condition, recall across each of the four individual components was broadly similar and no different to that of the control group. However when participants were interviewed using report everything and mental reinstatement, their recall was significantly higher

Question 13

what age range is the CI more useful for?

Answer 13

older people

Question 14

why is the CI more useful for older people?

Answer 14

Negative stereotypes make older people more cautious, the CI stresses to include every detail regardless of whether it is insignificant

Question 15

What did Mello and Fisher do?

Answer 15

Compared old and young adults’ memory of a filmed simulated crime using either CI or standard interview. CI produced more information but the advantage over the SI was greater for older people

Question 16

What is time problems with the CI

Answer 16

It requires more time that is actually available and that instead police officers prefer to use deliberate strategies aimed to limit an eyewitness’s report

Question 17

what is the real world application of this

Answer 17

Stein and Memon tested the CI in Brazil, the current mode of police questioning is interrogative and torture and other forms of ill treatment.women were recruited and were required to watch a video of an abduction the CI increased the amount of correct information obtained from witnesses. The CI was far superior in producing forensically rich information e.g. man holding a gun.