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?
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.
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).
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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Question Type
Author’s perspective
Implied
It’s difficult to predict the correct answer just based on the question stem, so let’s just go into the answers. The correct answer will be supported by the passage as something the author is most likely to agree with.
The author doesn’t suggest that one failing of hypnosis is that not everyone is susceptible. So there’s no evidence that hypnotic interview would be the best even if all witnesses were susceptible.
The author doesn’t suggest that the adoption of eye-closure should be conditioned on the lack of resources for the cognitive interview. Given that the author thinks eye-closure is ideal, the author would advocate for eye-closure regardless of whether police have enough resources for the cognitive interview technique.
Not supported, because the author acknowledges that the cognitive interview technique and eye-closure can produce the same benefits to accuracy, even though one is easier to learn than the other.
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The author doesn’t suggest that more information provided implies higher likelihood of false confidence. The author never connects the amount of info to false confidence.
Difficulty
86% of people who answer get this correct
This is a moderately difficult question.
It is similar in difficulty to other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%135
144
75%153
Analysis
Author’s perspective
Implied
Law
Problem-analysis
Single position
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
1%
147
b
86%
163
c
4%
153
d
9%
156
e
0%
148
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