Cognitive Interview
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- Created on: 21-04-15 16:41
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- The Cognitive Interview
- Aim
- Take account of known cognitive functions
- Avoid leading the witness
- Principle Assumptions
- Memory is an inter-connected network so there are multiple routes to the same point
- Retrieval is easier when context can be fully visualised (CUE DEPENDANT RECALL)
- The interviewer asks...
- Context
- Recreate the context at the same time of the incident, including environment & emotional state
- Focus
- Focused Retrieval
- Allow witness to talk uninterrupted & ask them to report everything, however trivial it may seem
- Focused Retrieval
- Variety
- Extensive Retrieval
- Witnesses recall from different perspectives (e.g. from victims perspective)
- Witnesses recall information in different orders
- Extensive Retrieval
- Context
- The Enhanced CI
- Witness Compatible Questioning
- Interviews must alter to meet the needs of the witness. Language should be tailored to suit each witness
- Minimising Distractions
- Relaxation
- Encourage witness to relax, pause when necessary & speak slowly
- Be Non- Judgemental
- Review
- Review the eye witness descriptions carefully
- Witness Compatible Questioning
- Geiselmann study
- P's viewed a violent crime and interviewed 48 hours later
- Interviews used: Standard interview, interview under hypnosis and CI
- Ci had highest recall followed by hypnosis
- Fisher Study
- The 7 CI trained detectives gathered 47% more information than before they were trained and 63% more than non-trained detectives
- Used real detectives & real crimes
- Evaluation
- Time consuming & costly
- Witness must be wiling to spend extra time as CI is longer than a standard interview
- Interviewers must be well trained so they can follow procedure to lead to extra information
- Aim
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