Cognitive Interview
- Created by: Ellen Powell
- Created on: 26-09-15 16:18
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- Cognitive Interview
- A set of instructions given by the interviewer to the witness to reinstate the context of the original event
- It is time consuming, for young children they find the questions confusing
- It can be difficult to replicate exactly
- Based on the work of Elizabeth Loftus
- Report everything - reporting all information regardless of how trivial it may seem
- Context Reinstatement: Recreating the scene in the mind of the witness, sights smells etc. based on the concept of cue dependent memory
- Recall in reverse order: Different orders for recall, e.g starting halfway through and working backwards
- Recall from a different perspective: Viewing the scene as others may have seen it
- Geiselman reccommends that it is not used on children under the age of 8
- Kohnken et al found that the CI gets on average 34% more detail
- Difficult to apply to many different police forces as they all use it differently
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