Memory - A01 & A02 - Fisher and Geiselman (1992)

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What did Fisher and Geiselman (1992) study?
The cognitive interview
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What did Fisher and Geilseman (1992) do?
Reviewed relevant psychological literature on memory, and related this to the way the interview were carried out by the police in real life.
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What did Fisher and Geilseman (1992) find?
People remember events better when they are provided with retrieval cues.
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The 4 steps of the cognitive interview - Outline 'Context reinstatement' (CR)
mentally reinstate the cintext of the target event. Recall the scene, the weather, what you were thinking and feeling at the time, the preceding events etc.
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The 4 steps of the cognitive interview - Outline 'Report everything' (RE)
Report every detial you can recall even if it seems trivial.
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The 4 steps of the cognitiveinterview - Outline 'Recall in reverse order' (RO)
Report the episode in several different temporal orders moving backwards and forward in time.
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The 4 steps of the cognitive interview - Outline 'Recall from changed perspective' (CP)
try to describe the episode as it would have been seen from different viewpoints, not just your own.
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A strength to Fisher and Geiselman (1992) cognitvie interview (CI)
A cognitvie interview is effective. Kohnken et al. (1999) conducted a meta - analysis of 53 studies found, on average, an increase of 34% in the amout of correct information generated in the CI compared with standrad intervewing techniques.
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What does Kohnken et al. (1999) strength to Fisher and Geiselman (1992) CI suggest/show?
That the cogntivie interview is effectvie compared to other interviewing techniques, making it reliable to use.
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A limitation to Fisher and Geiselman (1992) cognitive interview.
The interview takes up alot of time. Police officers suggest that this technique requires more time than is often available.
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What does this limitation to Fisher and Geiselman (1992) cognitvie interview suggest/show
That the cognitive interview may not be as usfull in real life because of the amount of time it takes for police.
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Reviewed relevant psychological literature on memory, and related this to the way the interview were carried out by the police in real life.

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