Cognitive interview

• cognative interview characteristics

  3 different types

  -change the perspective

  -report everything

  -reverse the order
• Reverse the order

  -participants are asked to start From the end of their account and recall it backwards from there

  -enchances detail and reliability
• Report everything

  -participants are asked to recall all the information they can remember about the topic in order to highlight any useful information
• What is a potential issue with children in research?

  They may be impractical in the real world
• Why might children under a certain age be problematic in research?

  They may struggle to understand reported events
• Who produced more recall from interviews than standard interviews?

  Milne and others
• What is a benefit of using certain elements in interviews?

  They work better than standard interviews
• What do police officers struggle with in research?

  Combining different perspectives into research
• How can memory recall be improved?

  Through various cognitive techniques
• What did Geiselman and colleagues develop to enhance accuracy in reporting?

  New techniques for accuracy in reporting
• What is the basis of the techniques developed by Geiselman et al.?

  Encoding specificity and recall
• What should be encouraged during recall according to the techniques?

  Recall of environmental factors
• What types of factors are important to recall during interviews?

  Environmental and emotional factors