Use Of Cognitive Interview

Question 1

What is cognitive interviewing

Answer 1

Questioning technique used by the police and forensic psychologists to interview suspects, victims and witnesses

Question 2

What are the four key principles of cognitive interviewing

Answer 2

1. Mentally recreating the environment- asked to form a mental image
2. Reporting every detail in depth- will ask about every detail no matter how insignificant
3. Recounting the event in different orders
4. Report the event from different perspectives

Question 3

Supporting evidence for cognitive interview

Answer 3

Milne- use of the full CI achieved mote recall than other single interview techniques

Question 4

Opposing evidence for CI

Answer 4

Johnson- people who had repeatedly imagined a picture they had seen did have false recall of the picture