The Enhanced Cognitive Interview

Question 1

The different parts of the enhanced cognitive interview

Answer 1

ROPE

R- reinstate
O- order
P- perspective
E- everything

Question 2

Who came up with it

Answer 2

Geisleman

Question 3

Reinstate the context

Answer 3

Recalling how they felt and imagine themselves back in the situation
- asking about the scene can be a cue to trigger something else eg weather, outfit, smell

Question 4

Report everything

Answer 4

Police don’t interrupt cause could stop their train of thought and witnesses may not realise some details are important.

-dont want to interrupt the neural pathway

Question 5

Change perspective

Answer 5

Can encourage different retrieval paths

Question 6

Recall in reverse order

Answer 6

We don’t store information chronologically
- eliminates schemas as you don’t recall it in order

Question 7

Enhanced Cognitive interview study

Answer 7

Fisher
- trained Florida police with cog interview and compacted interview performance before and after.
- after they gained 47% more useful info from real crimes.
✅- high ecological validity

Question 8

Another cog interview study and evaluation

Answer 8

Geisalman
- police watched video of crime then got interviewed two days later with either standard interview or cog interview.
- cog interview got significantly more accurate info and less mistakes.

Conclusion- supports effectiveness of cog interview compared to standard one.

✅- lab experiment - controlled reliable replicable
❌- Lack ecological validity

Question 9

Evaluation of cog interview

Answer 9

❌- time consuming - some police don’t use all components which can lead to inaccurate EWT effecting police success rates

❌- requires specialist training - money and time & implications to the economy gov funds police we found gov (taxes)

✅-real life effectiveness shown in supporting studies.

✅- can be used on children