cognitive interview
- Created by: Amelia Parnham
- Created on: 22-03-21 15:00
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- cognitive interviews
- elements of a cognitive interview
- reinstate the context
- encouraged to return to the scene of the event - either imaginary or in reality
- E.G.
- walking through the events
- noticing the weather
- thinking about what else you did that day
- E.G.
- encouraged to return to the scene of the event - either imaginary or in reality
- change the perspective
- witness reports from another witnesses point of view or the victim
- this prevents the witnesses expectations of how events should work
- starting with the last thing the witness remembers
- this prevents the witnesses expectations of how events should work
- witness reports from another witnesses point of view or the victim
- report everything
- report every minor detail they can think of
- this is because a minor detail could lead to a trigger for something more important
- report every minor detail they can think of
- reverse the order of recall
- starting with the last thing the witness remembers
- reinstate the context
- fisher and Geiselman created the cognitive interview to improve the accuracy of EWT
- evaluation
- strengths
- Milne and Bull did research into cognitive interviews
- found that they do lead to more information being reported
- concluded that it is useful especially reporting minor details and reinstating context
- Milne and Bull did research into cognitive interviews
- weaknesses
- time consuming and most police officers don't have the resources to successfully do
- this limits the usefulness of the technique
- there are many variations of the cognitive interview across the police force
- this makes it difficult to access the accuracy of the technique
- practical problem
- intervies should take place straight away however this doesn't always happen
- time consuming and most police officers don't have the resources to successfully do
- strengths
- elements of a cognitive interview
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