Improving the accuracy of eyewitness testimony - Cognitive interview

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1. What is a strength of the CI?

  • It allows the police to remember key facts
  • It poduces more accurate recall than standard interviews
  • It helps catch criminals
  • It helps recall
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2. Two of the main techniques of the CI are based on:

  • The multi-store model of memory
  • Tulvings encoding specificity principle
  • Millers research into the capacity of STM
  • Baddeleys research into coding in memory

3. A significant limitation of the CI is:

  • Some aspects of it are more useful than others
  • It is time consuming for the police to use
  • Its is less effective than the standard police interview
  • It is not supported by the bulk of psychological research into how human memory works

4. Two of the main techniques of the cognitive interview are:

  • Change perspective and reinstate the context
  • Change perspective and change your opinion
  • Report everything and use retrieval cues
  • Reverse the order and answer the interviewers questions

5. The enhanced cognitive interview uses the four techniques of the CI, it also:

  • Is a lot quicker
  • Gets the witness to speak slowly
  • Is nearly as effective as the CI
  • Is more widely used

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