Self-study
P1
When interviewing witnesses to a crime, police interviewers seek to maximize the amount of information that a cooperating eyewitness can give them so that they can generate leads to follow, confirm or disconfirm .
Intro to Topic ·
Police interviews of eyewitnesses
Goal is to maximize the amount of true information from eyewitnesses. How do police do this?
Method 1 ·
Cognitive interview
P2
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Description ·
Development, adoption, and techniques
Success ·
Increases number of true recalls without increasing false recalls
Problem ·
Too hard to implement
Cognitive interview is complex. Too hard to learn. Too hard to implement. So it's great if it's executed properly but it's too hard to execute properly.
P3
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Method 2 ·
Hypnosis
Problem ·
May increase false reports; may increase false confidence; not all witnesses are susceptible to hypnosis
While hypnosis is easier to execute than cognitive interview, it has a lot of downsides.
P4
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Ideal Solution / Method ·
3 criteria
1. requires no special training (better than cognitive interview); 2. can be applied to everyone (better than hypnosis); 3. has positive effect on true recall with no increase in false recall (better than hypnosis).
Method 3 / Ideal Solution ·
Close your eyes
Just tell witnesses to close their eyes as they are recalling.
Evidence of Success ·
"Close your eyes" is the best method
Improve true recall to similar degree as cognitive interview. Everyone can use this technique, unlike hypnosis. Doesn't require any specialized training, unlike cognitive interview.
Passage Style
Problem-analysis
Single position
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The author refers to
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The author doesn’t make any point about psychological research in P1.
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This best captures the purpose, which is to describe the kind of information police interviewers seek to gain from witnesses. Confirming or disconfirming alibis is one way interviewers might try to use an interview procedure.
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The author doesn’t discuss different concerns of officers and psychologists in P1.
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The author doesn’t mention the complexity of the cognitivie interview until the middle of P2.