COG INTERVIEWS

• who argues ewt can be improved through better interview techniques?

  Fisher + Geiselman
• What are the 4 cognitive interview techniques?

  Report everything

  Reinstate the context

  Reverse the order

  Change perspective
• report everything


  The interviewer encourages the witness to report all details about the event, even though these details may seem unimportant.
• reinstate the context


  Return to original crime scene in their mind and imagine the environment. Images should act as retrieval cues
• reverse the order


  Recall events backwards. Prevents witnesses from making assumptions about what happened based on knowledge of usual order
• change perspective


  witnesses should recall incident from other peoples perspectives. done to eliminate bias
• name 2 elements of the enhanced cognitive interview

  - not distracting interviewee with qs

  - encouraged to use i don't know
• AO3: strength


  - some elements of the full CI are useful

  - Milne + Bull found that each individual element was equally valuable, producing more info than standard interviews

  - the combo of report everything and context reinstatement produced better recall than any other elements individually
• AO3: Weakness


  - may be time consuming

  - requires training - time and money

  - first step witnesses may recall irrelevant info and the interviewer cant stop them due to fluidity
• AO3: Weakness


  - increases inaccurate info aswell as accutrate

  - rate of inaccurate info increases as accurate increases

  - Kohnken et al found an 81% increase in correct info but also as 62% increase in inaccurate info