Improving EWT AO1

• Who developed the cognitive interview?

  Gieselman (1984)
• What components did Gieselman (1974) split CI into?

  • Reporting everything in a sequential and logical order
  • Mental reinstatement to trigger cues
  • Changing the order to mitigate pre-existing schemas from influencing the recall of events
  • Changing perspectives to mitigate pre-existing schemas and precent expectations of event impacting recall
• Why did Gieselman (1984) developed the CI?


  To reduce the impact of misleading information and poor interview techniques of eyewitness accounts, and enhance retrieval of information
• How does Gieselman (1984) make use of Tulving and Thomson’s (1973) study?


  Using the ESP to improve retrieval cues through mental reinstatement
• Who aimed to improve police interviewing techniques?

  Fisher and Gieselman (1992)
• What is enhanced cognitive interviewing?


  Focuses on the interviewer instead of interviewee; training them to make the interviewee comfortable in speaking slowly in order to enable retrieval through smaller details and cues, without interrupting their train of thought