improving accuracy cogntive interview

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    • what is cognitive interview and who came up with it?
      a method of interviewing eyewitnesses to help retrieve more accurate memories by ronald fisher and geiselman
    • what are the 4 parts to c.i
      -report everything
      -reinstate the context
      -reverse the order
      -change perspective
    • explain report everything
      encouraged to include every single detail even if it may seem irrelevant as they may trigger other important memories
    • explain reinstate the context
      witness should return to original crime scene and imagine the environment and emotions
    • explain reverse the order
      events should be recalled in a diff order from original sequence e.g from the final point to the beginning, this is too prevent ppl reporting their expectations of how event must have happened rather than actual events
    • explain change perspective
      witnesses should recall incident from other peoples perspective to disrupt effect of schema, the schema for a setting generate expectations of what would have happened and so schema is recalled rather than actual events
    • explain the enhanced c.i
      fisher developed additional elements to focus on the social dynamics of interaction e.g when to establish eye contact and ideas such as minimising distractions
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