PSYCH 3CC3 Study Guide - Slan, Sitting Bear, Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem
14 Oct 2014
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Interview: designed to elicit information from witnesses and persons of interest: no implication of guilt. Interrogation: involves persons thought to be perpetrators of crime: presumed guilt. Why no good interviews on tv: police not trained in appropriate interview techniques, appropriate techniques seldom used in practice, appropriate interview is not dramatic = boring tv. Instructions to interviewee: report everything, don"t guess/assume/fabricate, ask if question is unclear, correct interviewer"s errors: typically interviewer summarizes the account correct them if needed, use comfortable language (i. e. swearing, casual language, repeated questions. People assume that if a question is asked repeatedly, they answered wrong or interviewer is not satisfied with first answer interviewee tends to change the answer: use open-ended questioning. Hypnosis and recall: more detailed recalled, however more errors made, hypnosis reduces overall accuracy, individuals tend to be more certain/confident for the correct and incorrect information. Interviewers use leading questions (e. g. did you see a gun in x"s hand? .
