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• Gieselman and Fisher developed the cognitive interview
• the cognitive interview

  • minimised distractions
  • actively listened to witness
  • open ended questions
  • avoid interrupting
  • avoid judgement
• the cognitive interview has 4 components to help enhance recall

  • report everything
  • context reinstatement
  • change order
  • change perspective
• report everything

  • report every single detail no matter if they think its insignificant
  • details may trigger other important memories
• context reinstatement

  • witness asked to mentally recreate the environment where the event took place
  • related to context dependent forgetting
• change order-

  • witness asked to report event in a different chronological order
  • prevents witness from reporting expectations of how the event happened, also prevents a narrative from being developed
• change perspective-

  • witness asked to report incident from different perspective, for example how the event would've occurred from a different witnesses perspective
  • this is done to disrupt the effect of expectations and schema on recall