Memory

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Report everything
Include even unimportant details
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Reinstate the context
Picture the scene and recall how you felt. Context-dependent forgetting.
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Reverse the order
Recall from the end and work backwards. Disrupts expectations.
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Change perspective
Put yourself in the shoes of someone else present. Disrupts schema.
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The enhanced cognitive interview
Adds social dynamics, e.g. establishing eye contact.
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CI is time-consuming
Takes longer and needs special training
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Some elements may be more valuable than others
Report everything and reinstate the context used together produced best recall
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Support for the effectiveness of the ECI
ECI consistently produces more accurate recall than standard interview
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Evaluation extra
Variations of the CI are used. CI creates an inrease in inaccurate information
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Two of the main techniques of the cognitive interview are:
Change perspective and reinstate the context
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The enhanced cognitive interview uses the four techniques of the CI. It also:
Gets the witness to speak slowly.
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Two of the main techniques of the CI are based on:
Tulving's encoding specificity principle.
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A significant limitation of the CI is:
It is time-consuming for the police to use.
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Reinstate the context

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Picture the scene and recall how you felt. Context-dependent forgetting.

Card 3

Front

Reverse the order

Back

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Card 4

Front

Change perspective

Back

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Card 5

Front

The enhanced cognitive interview

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