Deck 7: Interviewing Witnesses

Question 1

The Cognitive Interview (CI) is a toolbox of interview techniques used primarily with cooperative adult witnesses.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

What are the three components of the Cognitive Interview (CI)?

Answer 2

1. social dynamic
2. cognitive processes
3. communication

Question 3

______ is the component of Cognitive Interviews (CI) that involves the elements of building rapport and active witness participation.

Answer 3

Social dynamic

Question 4

The cognitive processes component of the Cognitive Interview (CI) involves five elements. Which of the following is not one of the five?

A) Multiple and varied retrieval
B) Context reinstatement
C) Maximisation of suppositions
D) Minimisation of guessing
E) Minimisation of constructive recall

Question 5

Cognitive process is the component of Cognitive Interview (CI) that involves encouraging elaborate responding and use of non-verbal techniques.

Question 6

The Cognitive Interview (CI), generally, results in how much of an increase in the amount of information that witnesses report compared to standard police interviews?

A) 5% to 25%
B) 25% to 50%
C) 55% to 75%

Question 7

The shortened forms of the Cognitive Interview (CI) do not appear to be nearly as effective as the full CI at increasing the quantity and accuracy from interviewers.

Question 8

In the self-administered Cognitive Interview (SAI), interviewees _____ their event recall instead of conveying their memory accounts aloud to an interviewer.

Question 9

Children may hold specific definitions of words and fail to recognise that interviewers' use of these words is meant to be interpreted more broadly, which can lead to contradictions in children's testimony.

Question 10

When looking at suggestibility, children have shown to be:

A) More suggestible than adults
B) As suggestible as adults
C) Less suggestible than adults

Question 11

Achieving Best Evidence (ABE) guidelines are amongst the most comprehensive in the world today and include detailed recommendations about broadly collecting evidence from children and vulnerable persons beyond the interview itself.

Question 12

The U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Investigative Interview Protocol has two main phases; ______ is the phase leading up to the discussion of the target event, and _____ is the phase focusing on the target event.

Question 13

<1>____ and <2>_____ are vulnerable witnesses at opposite ends of the age spectrum, who share many characteristics as witnesses.

Question 14

Even with modifications, the Cognitive Interview (CI) and NICHD Protocol are not effective methods for interviewing individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD).