Cognitive interviews

• Cognitive interviews

  Developed to improve recall + accuracy of EWT

  • Geiselman et al. 1985
• Report everything

  • Give every detail possible even if trivial/‘irrelevant’
  • May trigger other significant memories
  • Geiselman et al. 1985
• Context reinstatement

  • Remind witness of event’s context; scene, weather, thoughts + feelings
  • May negate context-dependent forgetting
  • Tulving + Thomson 1973
• Change the order

  • Mixing up chronological events to change order of recall; moving backwards + forwards in time
  • May trigger other memories
  • Glanzer + Cunitz 1966
• Change perspectives

  • Describing events from a different perspective
  • May trigger other memories
  • Geiselman et al. 1985