cognitive interview

Question 1

what is cognitive interview

Answer 1

a police technique for interviewing witnesses to a crime that attempts to increase of the accessibilty of stored information by using multiple retrieval strategies

Question 2

what are the 4 methods used in cognitive interview

Answer 2

mentally reinstating context
reporting every detail
changing order
changing perspective

Question 3

what are the characteristics of a standard interview

Answer 3

interviewer does a lot of talking and asks a specific set of pre determined questions, following a checklist, many are forced choice. witness is discouraged from adding additional information. questions may be leading

Question 4

problems with forced choice questions

Answer 4

can be problematic because witnesses might not have a specific answer mentioned in the question and they could be inbetween

Question 5

why is cognitive interview thought to work

Answer 5

using multiple methods and varying them increases recall
MRC can act as an environmental or physiological cue
makes schema less influential

Question 6

characteristics of a cognitive interview

Answer 6

avoids direct questioning.
encourages witness to recreate the original context in their head to increase recall

Question 7

what is mentally reinstating context

Answer 7

mentally recreates psych and phys environment making memories more accessible as it provides the appropriate contextual and emotional cues for retrieval

Question 8

what is reporting every detail

Answer 8

report every single detail without editing anything out even if it seems irrelevant. small details for

Question 9

why might reporting every detail be useful

Answer 9

memories are interconnected and so one might act as a cue for another.
small details from witnesses may be pieced together to give a clear image