improving the accuracy of eyewitness testimony

• what can improve the accuracy of ewt

  cognitive interview
• who developed the cognitive interview

  fisher and geiselman
• what are the steps of the cognitive interview?

  report everything, mental reinstatement of original context, changing the order and changing the perspective
• what is reporting everything

  interviewer encourages reporting of every detail of the event even if it seems irrelevant
• what is mental reinstatement of original context

  interviewer encourages interviewee to mentally recreate both the physical and psychological environment of the original incident
• what is changing the order

  reverse the order of events
• what is changing the perspectives

  this is done to disrupt the effect schemas have on recall
• what is enhanced cognitive interview

  a revised version emphasising 13 basic skills for the interviewer to use. these focused more on what the interviewer should do, including: establishing rapport, listening actively, asking open-ended questions, avoiding interrupting, pausing and avoiding leading questions
• whats the support for enhancing the accuracy of ewt

  geiselman et al
• whats the counter for enhancing the accuracy of ewt

  mundane realism and ecological validity
• whats the alternative of enhancing the accuracy of ewt

  individual differences
• what are the practical applications of enhancing the accuracy of ewt

  ewt