creators_name: Memon, Amina creators_name: Wark, Linsey creators_name: Bull, Ray creators_name: Koehnken, Guenter type: journalp datestamp: 1998-04-23 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:08 metadata_visibility: show title: Isolating the effects of the Cognitive Interview techniques ispublished: pub subjects: appl-cog-psy subjects: cog-psy full_text_status: public keywords: cognitive interview, eyewitness, children questioning abstract: The Cognitive Interview (CI) is a procedure designed for use in police interviews involving witnesses. This study tested the most recent version of the CI (Fisher and Geiselman, 1992) which comprises not only `cognitive' techniques such as context reinstatement but also more `social' communication techniques for increasing rapport. Children (8-9 years) viewed a magic show and were interviewed after a short delay of 2 days (Time 1) and/or a longer delay of 12 days (Time 2). At Time 1 the CI produced a significantly greater amount of correct recall than did a structured interview (SI) which was similar to the CI save for the CI's special cognitive techniques. However, at Time 1 the CI also produced significantly more recall errors. At Time 2, no differences occurred between CI and SI recall. There was a significant hypermnesia effect at Time 2 for those groups interviewed twice suggesting an effect of retrieval practice. The Time 1 effects of the CI were found to exist only in the questioning phase of the interview and social and cognitive explanations for the changes in the nature of recall with a CI are considered. Practical implications are discussed in the context of good practice for interviewing child witnesses. date: 1997 date_type: published publication: British Journal of Psychology volume: 88 number: 2 pagerange: 179-198 refereed: TRUE citation: Memon, Amina and Wark, Linsey and Bull, Ray and Koehnken, Guenter (1997) Isolating the effects of the Cognitive Interview techniques. [Journal (Paginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/639/1/memon.cognitive_interview.html