Free recall
Definition
The CI phase in which a witness reports everything they can remember without interruption or directing questions from the interviewer, producing a witness-led rather than officer-led account.
Related terms
- Cognitive Interview (CI)
- An evidence-based interview technique developed by Fisher and Geiselman that uses memory-enhancement strategies including mental reinstatement of context, free recall, temporal variation,...
- Encoding specificity
- Tulving's principle that memory retrieval is most effective when the retrieval context matches the encoding context. Mental reinstatement of context is a...
- Mental reinstatement of context
- A CI technique in which the witness is asked to mentally return to the setting of the event, imagining what they saw,...
- Misinformation effect
- The incorporation of misleading post-event information into the original memory trace, documented by Loftus and Palmer (1974) and subsequent studies. Distinguished from...
- PEACE
- Preparation and Planning, Engage and Explain, Account, Closure, Evaluation: the five-stage interview framework adopted in England and Wales from 1992, used for...
Explained in
- The PEACE Model, the Cognitive Interview, and Investigative LinguisticsThe CI phase in which a witness reports everything they can remember without interruption or directing questions from the interviewer, producing a witness-led...