Psych AS Cognitive Interview
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- Created on: 14-04-15 20:29
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- The cognitive interview
- questioning technique used by the police to enhance retrieval of information from the witnesses memory.
- interviewer tries to mentally reinstate the environmental and personal context of the crime for the witnesses, by asking them about their general activities and feelings on the day
- Recounting the incident in a different narrative order. Geiselman & Fisher proposed that due to the recency effect, people tend to recall more recent events more clearly than others.
- Witnesses are asked to report every detail, even if they think that detail is trivial. In this way, apparently unimportant detail might act as a trigger for key information about the event.
- Geiselman et al
- Witnesses are asked to report the incident from different perspective, describing what they think other witnesses (or even the criminals themselves) might have seen.
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