Cognitive interview

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Last updated 6:38 PM on 5/14/26
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Cognitive interview structure

  • report everything: may trigger additional details.

  • Reinstate context: remembering emotions/enviornment.

  • Reverse order: stops reporting expectations + dishonesty.

  • Changing perspective: also reduces expectations.

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Standard police interviews

  • intimidating.

  • Leading/forced questions.

  • no real structure

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strength - effectiveness

  • Kohnken - meta analysis of 55 studies comparing CI and standard police interview found that cognitive interviews had 41% more accurate information

  • showing its an effective recall technique.

  • but based on lab research so could lack ecological validity

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Limitation - impractical

  • Kebbell and Wagstaff found officers find the CI impractical - requires extensive training and time consuming.

  • reduces consistency- loses effectiveness

  • not a realistic method for officers

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limitation - individual differences

  • may vary depending on certain characteristics such as age

  • The CI produced better recall in older adults than younger adults. reinstating context better fir age - related memory decline

  • more valuable in older eyewitnesses