L12 - Cognitive Interview

Question 1

What are the 4 stages?

Answer 1

Context reinstatement
Report everything
Recall from changed perspective
Recall in reversed order

Question 2

What is context reinstatement?

Answer 2

Witnesses mentally recreate the situation, e.g. weather and how they were feeling

Question 3

What is report everything?

Answer 3

Witnesses report every single detail they remember, regardless of if they think it’s insignificant

Question 4

What is recall from changed perspective?

Answer 4

Recall from perspective of someone else present

May be birds eye view to enhance recall

Question 5

What is recall in reversed order?

Answer 5

Witness recalls what they state backwards to ensure what was said in ‘report everything’ was accurate

Question 6

What is a different version of the cognitive interview?

Answer 6

Enhanced cognitive interview

Question 7

What was added in the enhanced cognitive interview?

Answer 7

Give non-verbal cues to show attention
Encourage witness to speak slow and clear
Give comments to clarify statement

Question 8

Advantage related to participants being shown a simulation?

Answer 8

Recall tested using standard, cognitive, hypnosis

Cognitive had best recall

Question 9

+ related to study of American detectives

Answer 9

When detectives had been trained to use it, witnesses reported more detail in accounts - 90% was accurate, 46% more detail

Question 10

Disadvantage?

Answer 10

Researcher found that cognitive interview produced more incorrect info than the standard interview
More detail may mean more mistakes