Cognitive Interview
- Created by: theninjaemu
- Created on: 18-11-16 15:52
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- Cognitive Interview
- Report everything
- Witnesses encouraged to recall every detail
- Even seemingly irrelevant information should be recalled
- Trivial details may be important
- Can trigger other important memories
- Change perspective
- Recall the incident from someone elses perspective
- Disrupts effects of expectations and schema on recall
- Reinstate the context
- Witness returns to original crime scene in their mind
- Imagining the environment
- What the weather was like
- What they could see
- relates to context-dependent forgetting
- Reverse the order
- Recall events in a different chronologicalorder
- From end to begining
- From middle to begining
- Prevents reporting expectations of what happened rather than what actually happened
- Harder to tell a dishonest account if a witness has to reverse it
- Recall events in a different chronologicalorder
- Enhanced cognitive interview
- Fischer et al (1987) added elements to focus on social dynamics of an interation
- E.g. interviewer needs to know when and when not to establish eye contact
- Also includes other ideas
- Witness anxiety
- Minimising distractions
- Getting the witness to speak slowly
- Asking open ended questions
- Report everything
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