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The Cognitive Interview
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- 1What is context reinstatement?Trying to mentally recreate an image of the situation, including details of the environment, such as weather conditions, and the individual's emotional state.
- 2What is recall from a changed perspective?Trying to mentally recreate the situation from different points of view.
- 3What is recall in reverse order?The witness is asked to describe the scene in reverse chronological order.
- 4What is report everything?The interviewer encourages the witness to report all details about the event, even though these details may seem unimportant.
- 5What is the enhanced cognitive interview?Encourage the witness to relax and speak slowly. Offer comments to help clarify witness statements. Adapt questions to suit the understanding of individual witnesses.
- 6What is a limitation of the cognitive interview?It is time consuming and takes longer than a standard police interview, and it time consuming to train police officers to use this method.
- 7What did Geiselman (1985) find?Participants viewed a film of a violent crime, and after 48 hours were interviewed by a policeman with either the cognitive interview, a standard interview or an interview using hypnosis. The average number of correctly recalled facts for the cognitive interview was 41.2, for hypothesis was 38.0 and for the standard interview was 29.4.
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- Flashcards on The Cognitive Interview, created by Sam Ferstenberg on 15/05/2019.
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