Cognitive Interview

• definition of eyewitness testimony

  how people remember events such as crimes or accidents
• what are two main features of CI

  -change perspective and reinstate context
• the enhanced CI is more effective because?

  it encourages EW to speak slowly + makes interviewers pay attention to body language and maintain eye contact
• Fisher and Geiselman proposed psychological research/insights to improve EWT. They created the cognitive interview
• Cognitive interview has 4 main parts

  1. Report everything-No matter how minor the detail, report it.
  2. Reinstate the context-Put yourself mentally back in the situation
  3. Reverse the order-Describe what happened from the end back to the beginning.
  4. Change perspective-Put yourself in the shoes of someone else who was there.
• They also created the enhanced cognitive interview-Focuses on the social dynamics of the interaction
• one limitation is CI is time consuming
• One limitation of cognitive interview is there is some elements which may not be as effective