Cognitive interview
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- Created on: 06-05-18 08:40
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- Cognitive interview
- Geisalman et al (1985) identified a number of ways that standard police interviews could negatively affect EWT
- E.G. Techniques prompted jumps between memory modalities (describing appearances vs recalling dialogue) in a non-chronological order.
- How it works
- 1) Interviewer gets witness to feel relaxed, tailors language to suit individual
- 2) Witness encouraged to recreate internal and external conditions at the scene (context reinstatement)
- Recalling the event, forwards or backwards (change order), and from someone else's perspective
- Interviewer focuses on gathering retrieval cues, recalling details of an event in a variety of contexts is key to 'cuing' retrieval of a large amount of accurate information from memory
- Evaluation
- + Fisher et al (1990) found witnesses reported greater detail in their accounts of the crimes when American detectives had been trained to use this technique
- Supporting evidence for this technique improving recall rates in witnesses
- - Limited practical application: far more time consuming than a standard interview, also requires specialist training in the field.
- There is limited police funding to be spent on a variety of other factors of the police service.
- + Fisher et al (1990) found witnesses reported greater detail in their accounts of the crimes when American detectives had been trained to use this technique
- Geisalman et al (1985) identified a number of ways that standard police interviews could negatively affect EWT
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