Cognitive Interview

What is the primary purpose of the cognitive interview?

• To control crowds during a crime scene

• To protect evidence at a crime scene

• To improve the information that an eyewitness can retrieve about a crime

• To train police officers in using firearms

Who created the memory retrieval procedure for interviewing eyewitnesses called the cognitive interview?

• B.F. Skinner

• Carl Rogers

• Sigmund Freud

• Edward Geiselman

Which principle is the technique of reinstating the context based on?

• Encoding specificity principle

• Law of effect

• Classical conditioning

• Operant conditioning

What is the second technique in the cognitive interview?

• Change perspective

• Reinstate the context

• Report everything

• Reverse the order

What is the purpose of reversing the order of events in the cognitive interview?

• To improve the eyewitness's mood

• To confuse the eyewitness

• To disrupt the effect of schemas

• To make the interview shorter

What is the fourth technique in the cognitive interview?

• Reverse the order

• Report everything

• Change perspective

• Reinstate the context

What additional factor is included in the enhanced cognitive interview?

• Shortening the interview time

• Using lie detectors

• Building rapport with the eyewitness

• Increasing the number of interviewers

What did the research by Geiselman et al. (1985) find about the cognitive interview?

• It produced more correctly recalled details than the standard interview

• It produced more errors than the standard interview

• It was less effective than the standard interview

• It produced fewer errors than the standard interview

What was a major finding from the study by Fisher et al. (1989) with real-life cases of robberies?

• Untrained detectives produced more information

• Trained detectives produced fewer errors

• Trained detectives produced 63% more information

• There was no difference between trained and untrained detectives

What is one limitation of the cognitive interview mentioned in the text?

• It produces too few details

• It is not based on psychological research

• It is time-consuming

• It is too easy to conduct