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.
Supported, because the author mentions the possibility of deviating from training procedures as part of explaining one “problem associated with the cognitive interview.” This shows the author thinks deviating from procedures is something that might decrease the effectiveness of the cognitive interview.
The author never suggests that succes at getting information depends “largely” on rapport. Perhaps rapport is one factor, but we don’t know that it is a large or prominent factor.
The author doesn’t indicate that hypnotic interviewing requires “no” training. The training it involves might be less complex than that for cognitive interviewing, but this doesn’t imply there’s “no” training.
The author doesn’t indicate that higher complexity “usually” implies less reliability. In fact, the most complex technique mentioned, the cognitive interview, does not decrease overall accuracy.
Difficulty
79% 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%141
149
75%158
Analysis
Author’s perspective
Implied
Law
Problem-analysis
Single position
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
79%
163
b
6%
156
c
4%
158
d
3%
153
e
7%
155
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