Lesson 3.3.3

3.3.3 Collection of evidence from witnesses and suspects (cognitive) Quiz: OCR Psychology, Unit 3

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Lesson 3.3.3, Collection of evidence from witnesses and suspects (cognitive): 20 multiple choice questions for the OCR Psychology (H567), Unit 3: Applied psychology (Component 03), written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What type of interview technique was developed by Geiselman and Fisher in 1984?

    • Holistic interview
    • Structured interview
    • Cognitive interview
    • Standard interview

  2. Which memory component is primarily engaged by the cognitive interview's mental reinstatement of context?

    • Episodic memory
    • Sensory memory
    • Semantic memory
    • Procedural memory

  3. Which component of the cognitive interview asks the witness to recall events in reverse order?

    • Mental reinstatement
    • Change perspective
    • Report everything
    • Change order

  4. What is a major practical limitation of conducting full cognitive interviews?

    • Requires DNA
    • Biases juries
    • Low reliability
    • Time consuming

  5. Which cognitive interview technique involves imagining the scene from another person's viewpoint?

    • Change order
    • Report everything
    • Change perspective
    • Context reinstatement

  6. Why might the cognitive interview increase the amount of incorrect information reported?

    • Social loafing
    • Proactive amnesia
    • False positives
    • Retroactive interference

  7. Which modified version of the cognitive interview focuses heavily on social dynamics between interviewer and witness?

    • Standard cognitive interview
    • Advanced cognitive interview
    • Enhanced cognitive interview
    • Revised cognitive interview

  8. During a cognitive interview, why are witnesses instructed to include even seemingly trivial details?

    • Reduce stress
    • Trigger cues
    • Save time
    • Confuse suspects

  9. A witness is asked to mentally rebuild the weather and their mood during a crime. What technique is this?

    • Report everything
    • Reverse sequencing
    • Change perspective
    • Context reinstatement

  10. An interviewer avoids interrupting a witness and speaks slowly to build trust. Which technique is this an example of?

    • Standard CI
    • Blind lineup
    • Enhanced CI
    • Cognitive bias

  11. A witness recalls a robbery backwards from the getaway to the entry. Which specific technique are they using?

    • Context reinstatement
    • Change order
    • Report everything
    • Change perspective

  12. A police officer rushes a witness and constantly interrupts their answers. Which interview method are they using?

    • Standard interview
    • Enhanced interview
    • Holistic interview
    • Cognitive interview

  13. A witness imagines sitting in the getaway car watching the crime unfold. Which technique is being applied?

    • Change order
    • Change perspective
    • Report everything
    • Context reinstatement

  14. A witness dumps unedited memories onto the interviewer without filtering. Which instruction did they follow?

    • Context reinstatement
    • Report everything
    • Change order
    • Change perspective

  15. An interview trainer notes that police officers require specialist courses to run CIs properly. What does this highlight?

    • Low ecological validity
    • Poor standardization
    • Ethical violation
    • High training cost

  16. Milne and Bull found that which combination yielded the highest number of correct details from witnesses?

    • Order and report
    • Perspective and order
    • Reinstate and report
    • Perspective and reinstate

  17. What is the primary psychological mechanism underlying context reinstatement in the cognitive interview?

    • Retroactive interference
    • Decay theory
    • Displacement
    • Cue-dependent forgetting

  18. Why does changing the temporal order of recall help reduce inaccurate witness statements?

    • Prevents decay
    • Disrupts schemas
    • Enhances attention
    • Stops interference

  19. Which police practice during suspect interviews can inadvertently contaminate memory just like poor witness interviews?

    • Open questions
    • Context cues
    • Blind lineups
    • Leading questions

  20. Köhnken et al. conducted a meta-analysis and found that cognitive interviews increased what undesirable outcome alongside correct details?

    • Incorrect details
    • Interview duration
    • Attrition rates
    • Witness anxiety

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