Terms To Know
What is a cognitive interview?
A protocol designed to help police investigators obtain the maximum amount of information (quantity) from witnesses with the least likelihood of inducing false memories.
True or False: Cognitive interviews reduce misleading question effects
True
Based on observations what do researchers recommend be incorporated into CI?
Eye closure, it helps remember more information about events.
What is an open-ended question?
Retrieval questions that contain very few cues that allow the participant to describe her memory without suggestions.
What does cognitive interviews increase?
The amount of information obtained.
What percentage of more information does CI elicit without affecting accuracy rates?
35-50% more information.
What is context reinstatement?
It is when witnesses are encouraged to think about the physical context of the witnessed event.
True or False: CI are hard to train for and use in the field.
False, CI`s are simple to train and implement.
What are the 3 retrieval-enhancing principles:
Context restatement, Different temporal patterns, and variety of perspectives
What are different temporal patterns in cognitive interviews?
They encourage the witness to remember the event from different tie sequences. Ex. Forward order and reverse order.
In a Ci what occurs to accuracy and number of errors?
The rate of accuracy is preserved while the number of errors usually does not increase.
What are cognitive interviews based on?
1.) scientifically derived principles of memory
2.) communication theory
3.) analysis of police interviews
What is a variety of perspective?
It is when the witness is asked to visualize the crime scene from a different perspective in hope that different retrieval cues will provide more information.
What do mock jurors think of cognitive interviews?
Mock jurors rate it as being less manipulative and just as credible as standard interviews
What did Fisher and Geiselman suggest about CI?
They suggested that it should be used in investigations other than in legal settings.