Memory: Cognitive interview
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- Q1The enhanced cognitive interview uses the four techniques in CI. It also:gets the witness to speak slowlyis more widely usedis nearly as effective as CIis a lot quicker30s
- Q2A significant limitation of CI is:it is not supported by psychological researchit is time consuming for the police to usesome aspects of it are more useful than othersit is less effective than the standard police interview30s
- Q3Which of the following statements about narrative reordering is false?recall of events are in a different order to what actually occurredit helps prevent people from reporting their expectations of what happenedit is based on the encoding specificity principleit is more difficult to produce a truthful account30s
- Q4Which of the following is NOT a feature of the Enhanced Cognitive Interview?building a positive rapportasking the witness to speak slowlyminimising distractionstaking the witness to the scene of the crime30s
- Q5Which of the following is NOT a feature of the Cognitive Interview?context reinstatementask closed questionsrecall from a different perspectivenarrative reordering30s
- Q6Which of the following statements about the Cognitive Interview is false?some studies have shown in can actually increase the amount of inaccurate information recalledit requires special trainingit is based on psychological researchuse of cognitive only increases the amount of accurate material recalled30s
- Q7Recalling from different perspectives in the Cognitive Interview is trying to reduce which type of effect?order effectinvestigator effectschema effectmisleading information effect30s
- Q8In the research by Milne & Bull, which two techniques within the Cognitive Interview have been found to be more valuable?reverse the order and context reinstatementreport everything and reverse orderreport everything and context reinstatementchange perspective and narrative reordering30s
- Q9In the study by Fisher et al, what increase in detailed information was obtained when using the Enhanced Cognitive Interview?46%52%49%57%30s
- Q10Context reinstatement is based on which explanation of forgetting?context-dependentdisplacementinterferencedecay30s
- Q11Who developed the Enhanced Cognitive Interview?BaddeleyLoftusFosterFisher30s
- Q12Identify the INCORRECT problem with the Standard Interview put forward by Brewer (2000)has frequent interruptionsrequires little to no traininglots of short answer questionsvery aggressive30s
- Q13Geiselman (1999) recommends that the Cognitive Interview is only used on children aged...8 years and over5 years and over10 years and over13 years and over30s
- Q14Identify the INCORRECT weakness of cognitive interview techniquesit is not useful in helping police departments and court roomsdifficult to generalise research due to variations of the CIits subjective - doesn't accurately measure unreported informationresearch which uses the standard interview as a comparison lack historical validity30s