Cognitive interview
- Created by: shannon.mcc
- Created on: 10-04-15 21:14
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- The cognitive interview
- 1: Report everything
- Including every detail of the event even though it may seem irrelevant.
- 2: Context reinstatement
- Mentally recreating the environment and contacts from the original event.
- 3: Reverse order:
- Finding alternative ways to view the event to reduce schemas.
- 4: Changing the perspective:
- Imagining that you are another witness for example.
- All components 1-4 must be used but may not be used in that order.
- A meta-analysis of 53 studies found on average an increase of 34% in the amount of correct information generated when using the CI.
- Most studies only tested college students so lack generalising to the population
- Milne and Bull: Found if one component is used and tested against a control group there is not much of a difference. However when the components are used together there is a significant difference.
- Kebble and Wagstaff: found that many police forces tend to use context reinstatement and report everything to deal with EWT
- The technique requires more time and specialist training and so there is not enough time to perform it fully. They only use it to the extent the officer feels necessary.
- An enhanced version of the CI included probing a witness's mental image of the event. This places even greater demands on the interviewer. So training is a critical issue.
- The technique requires more time and specialist training and so there is not enough time to perform it fully. They only use it to the extent the officer feels necessary.
- 1: Report everything
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