4 parts of the cognitive interview

• Context reinstatement​ - The interviewer encourages the witness to mentally recreate the environmental and emotional context of the event
• Reverse order​ - The witness is asked to recall the event in a different chronological order e.g. from the end to the beginning.
• Change perspective - The witness is asked to mentally recreate the​

  situation from a different perspectives, e.g.: the point of view of another witness
• Report everything - The interviewer encourages the witness to report all the details of the event, even the details which may seem unimportant
• ROPE acronym second letter of the 4 parts