cognitive interview

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CI stage 1
Mental reinstatement of original context: they try to get the interviewed person to recreate the environment of the original incident. The interviewer may ask questions about the context and the day. The aim is to make memories accessible.
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CI stage 2
Report everything: the interviewer encourages the reporting of every single detail of the event without editing anything out, even if it seems irrelevant. This is because memories are inter-connected with one another so therefore every memory may be conne
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CI stage 3
Change Order: the interviewer may try alternative ways through the timeline of the incident, for example by reversing the order in which the events took place. If you do this it prevents your re-existing schema filing in events that didn’t happen.
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CI stage 4
Change perspective: the interviewer may ask them to recall the events from a witness's perspective. This is to disrupt the schemas at work.
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Research into the effectiveness of the cognitive interview
A meta-analysis of 53 studies found, on average an increase of 34% in the amount of correct information generated in the CI compared with standard interviewing techniques. Milne and Bull found that when participants were interviewed using a combination of
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Quality may suffer
The procedure was designed to increase the correct amount of recall. But this procedure also increased the amount of incorrect information. Kronkhen et al found this.
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Problems with CI in practice
From their interviews with police Kebbel and Wagstaff report a problem with the police. Police officers think it takes more time that it is worth and they prefer to use techniques that keep the reports to a minimum.
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