The cognitive interview: Much more than simply “try again”

Campos, Laura; Alonso-Quecuty, Maria L.

doi:10.1080/10683169908414993

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“…In a study carried out by authors, 62% more correct information was obtained with the CI compared to a SI with the multiple free recall protocol, and without an increase in errors (Campos & Alonso-Quecuty (1999). We concluded that these results showed the effectiveness of the mnemonic strategies included in the CI to enhance recall.…”

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Language crimes and the cognitive interview: testing its efficacy in retrieving a conversational event

Campos

Alonso-Quecuty

2008

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Frequently, the only available evidence in 'language crimes' (e.g. verbal sexual harassment) is witness statements about criminal conversations. However, previous research has showed that recall for sentences in conversation is very poor. The main aim of this research was to find out how to solve this problem. The cognitive interview (CI) is an interview technique which has shown to be more effective in recalling criminal episodes than a comparison interview. In addition, our experience in research on the CI had been highly satisfactory; therefore, we decided to use the CI as a tool in the research on memory for conversation, so far ignored. Thus, this study tested, for the first time, whether the CI would be also successful in obtaining complete and accurate accounts for a criminal conversation. Different forms of correct recall (verbatim/gist) of the verbal information as well as different types of errors (distortions/fabrications) were also examined. It was predicted that the CI would elicit more correct information without an increase in errors than a comparison interview (i.e. a free-recall protocol). Results confirmed these hypotheses. Interpretations of the overall findings are offered within the context of theoretical principles concerning the retrieval of information from memory.

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Language crimes and the cognitive interview: testing its efficacy in retrieving a conversational event

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Alonso-Quecuty

2008

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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“…This has included studies with older adults (McMahon, 2000;Mello & Fisher, 1996), adults with mild learning disabilities (Milne, Clare, & Bull, 1999), and children (McCauley & Fisher, 1995a, 1995b. Furthermore, research has covered a variety of eyewitness events, such as traffic accidents (Brock, Fisher, & Cutler, 1999), attempted car thefts (Campos & Alonso-Quecuty, 1999), innocuous verbal exchanges (Geiselman et al, 1984), and threatening behaviour (Campos & Alonso-Quecuty, 1999), in both staged and video-taped scenarios (see Koehnken et al, 1999). The duration of these to-be-remembered events has ranged from 15 s (e.g.…”

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“…Brock et al, 1999) to 15 min (e.g. Campos & Alonso-Quecuty, 1999). Therefore, the cognitive interview is effective in a variety of eyewitness events with a diverse range of witnesses.…”

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The role of visual imagery in the enhanced cognitive interview: guided questioning techniques and individual differences

Davis

McMahon

Greenwood

2003

Journal Invest Psychology

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“…This is the case, for instance, when the interviewer wants to put the emphasis on the free recall phase, that is, when he/she wants to make several recall attempts before any questioning. This way of proceeding has been encountered in the literature (Wright & Holliday, 2007;Dornburg & McDaniel, 2006;Roberts & Higham, 2002;Py, Ginet, Desperies, & Cathey, 1997;Campos & Alonso-Quecuty, 1999) and benefits the advantages of free recall over questioning (see e.g. Powell, Fisher, & Wright, 2005, pp.…”

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The Cognitive Interview for Use with Adults: An Empirical Test of an Alternative Mnemonic and of a Partial Protocol

Colomb

Ginet

2011

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Research showed that the four Cognitive Interview (CI) mnemonics used individually are unequally effective. We propose to test (i) their benefit when used within the same free recall phase and (ii) an original instruction, 'guided peripheral focus' (GPF). In two studies, 84 and 42 students were interviewed with Structured Interviews (SI), CIs or CI variations about a film viewed 1 week before. Results indicated that (i) if a CI variation with the GPF instead of the 'perspective' elicits more correct information than an SI or a CI, variations replacing the 'perspective' or the 'order' and 'perspective' with control instruction(s) do not; (ii) a partial CI integrating the 'everything', 'context' and GPF increases correct information compared with an SI, whereas the CI does not. We will discuss in which extent these results demonstrate the effectiveness of the 'everything', 'context' and 'GPF' and a potential lack of benefit of the 'order' and 'perspective'.

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The cognitive interview: Much more than simply “try again”

Cited by 24 publications

References 39 publications

Language crimes and the cognitive interview: testing its efficacy in retrieving a conversational event

Language crimes and the cognitive interview: testing its efficacy in retrieving a conversational event

The role of visual imagery in the enhanced cognitive interview: guided questioning techniques and individual differences

The Cognitive Interview for Use with Adults: An Empirical Test of an Alternative Mnemonic and of a Partial Protocol

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