Forensic Interviewing questions with correct answers

Three goals of interviewing protocols: - Answer Avoid suggestion, increase clarity, and obtain the most reliable information possible. The Purpose of forensic child interviewing is: - Answer To obtain reliable descriptive facts from a child. The overreaching purpose of using a protocol is to enhance children's ability to communicate what they can remember about an event. The effects: forensic protocols are designed: - Answer 1. To engage in questioning that fits within young children's cognitive abilities, so the information children give is more reliable 2. To make an interviewer less nervous when questioning a child. Mindy Mitnick ,Cognitive Limitations of Children - Answer 1. "(C)hildren do not magically transform their thinking at a particular age. What a toddler can't do, a pre-schooler may 'barely do,' and what a pre-schooler can begin to do, a teen may be able to do with difficulty. 2. "(A) trained interviewer is to be familiar with the process of children's cognitive development," so they can use language that best avoids misunderstanding between a child and the interviewer. Thus a good interviewer uses his or her knowledge of standard cognitive development to ask questions that will be easiest for a child to understand." Cognitive limitations discussed in Mitnick`s work: Centration. - Answer Children recall parts of an event that are most important to them(thus, information that is central to them)more than surrounding information/peripheral details